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Analysis of Verbal Humor in the Secret Life of Pets from the Cooperative Principle
作者：黄梦菲
来源：《青年生活》2019年第10期
摘要： Humor is a verbal art that embodies the wisdom of human communication. In the film and television works， it plays an important role in giving audience entertainment. Grice proposes the “cooperative principle” to guide people to complete the communication effectively. As a successful carrier of verbal humor， film dialogue provides a large number of typical materials for its pragmatic research and analysis.
關键词： Cooperative Principle; dialogues in The Secret life of Pets; verbal humor Introduction
As a special language art， humor lies in various situations. As Nash mentioned： “Humor is the distinctive features of human beings.” （Nash， 1981：1）. This essay is to analyze English humor from Grice’s Cooperative principle. Through the analysis， we will know how to generate humor and why a short conversation in the film The Secret Life of Pets can bring us so much entertainment. At the same time， we will know more about how to create humor and how to appreciate humor in The Secret Life of Pets .
Chapter 1; Cooperative Principle
In Logic and Conversation H.P. Grice （Grice，1975：45） states that， “our talk exchanges do not normally consist of a succession of disconnected remarks， and would not be rational if they did. They are characteristically， and to some degree at least， cooperative efforts and each participant recognizes in them， to some extent， a common purpose or set of purposes， or at least a mutually accepted direction”. Grice calls the Cooperative Principle （CP） and introduced four categories of maxims：（1）Quantity： Make your contribution as informative as is required （for the current purposes of the exchange）; do not make your contribution more informative than is required.（2）Quality： Try to make your contribution one that is true; do not say what you believe to be false; do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.（3）Relation： Be relevant.（4）Manner： Avoid obscurity of expression; Avoid ambiguity; be brief （avoid unnecessary prolixity）; be orderly. （Grice， 1975：45）. Chapter 2; The Secret Life of Pets
Analysis of Verbal Humor in the Secret Life of Pet
