This paper analyzes the humorous effects generated through the non-observance of Grice’s Cooperative Principle(CP)in the Chinese crosstalk Learning Manchu.Focusing on violations of the Quantity,Quality,Relation,and M...This paper analyzes the humorous effects generated through the non-observance of Grice’s Cooperative Principle(CP)in the Chinese crosstalk Learning Manchu.Focusing on violations of the Quantity,Quality,Relation,and Manner maxims,it examines how deliberate pragmatic deviations create comedy.The study also incorporates the unique crosstalk mechanism of“Baofu”(packaging and delivering jokes)and emphasizes the essential role of audience cooperation in humor reception.It argues that humor in crosstalk arises not only from performers’non-cooperation but also from active audience engagement within a shared cultural context.展开更多
This paper makes a systematical study on the translating strategies of humorous language,with linguistic and cultural factors taken into consideration in the discussion.It should be pointed out that whatever strategy ...This paper makes a systematical study on the translating strategies of humorous language,with linguistic and cultural factors taken into consideration in the discussion.It should be pointed out that whatever strategy is chosen in translation,it is workable so long as it can reach the best humorous effect.展开更多
Humorous utterances,especially those in the form of conversation in life,have distinctive pragmatic features.There is a close relationship between humor and pragmatics,which can be found in various books on pragmatics...Humorous utterances,especially those in the form of conversation in life,have distinctive pragmatic features.There is a close relationship between humor and pragmatics,which can be found in various books on pragmatics.In those books,humorous utterances function as examples for pragmatic analysis.Effective humorous languages often reflect one or several pragmatic features.This paper specifically introduces one of the important theories of pragmatics:cooperative principle,by which the paper analyzes the humorous utterance and explores the relationship between pragmatic rules and humorous utterance.The purpose is to make people know humorous utterance is a matter of pragmatics. The reality of the humor especially depends on implication of the language and the context.展开更多
This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certa...This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certain context. Through the analysis of representative dialogues which obey and violate the maxims respectively, this paper concludes that speakers, by appropriately violating the maxims and unconsciously observing the maxims of the CP, manage to achieve humorous effects and conversational implicature. Meanwhile, this paper aims to help people express themselves appropriately to avoid pragmatic failures and achieve the goal of communication.展开更多
Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put f...Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain's humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain's works readily understood.展开更多
Mammography is widely performed as a standardized procedure for breast cancer screening;however, women often feel some degree of pain during this procedure. Currently, there are limited options available for alleviati...Mammography is widely performed as a standardized procedure for breast cancer screening;however, women often feel some degree of pain during this procedure. Currently, there are limited options available for alleviating pain related to mammography. A non-medicinal approach to the alleviation of pain involves the effects of laughter on physical and psychological wellbeing. We therefore examined the possibility that humorous stimuli would alleviate the physical burden on women undergoing mammography. We assessed 29 women, 15 women received only conventional mammography (neutral group), while 14 women (humor group) watched a funny video during the same examination. The intensity of pain experienced during mammography was assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) and the VAS results showed a statistically significant difference (P = 0.007) between the two groups, with the humor group experiencing less pain. In an additional experiment, 14 women in the humor group also underwent conventional mammography without exposure to the funny video and pain was assessed by VAS. We found that the pain experienced during conventional mammography without the funny video was significantly greater than the pain experienced during the same mammography but with the funny video (P = 0.047). These findings suggested the possibility of alleviating pain during mammography by humorous stimuli.展开更多
The paper is divided into Five Chapters,aiming to explain the humorous effect in our daily discourse in the perspective of linguistic analysis.It is another new discovery.Two languages have their own distinct features...The paper is divided into Five Chapters,aiming to explain the humorous effect in our daily discourse in the perspective of linguistic analysis.It is another new discovery.Two languages have their own distinct features.When translating,we will find a lot of humorous effect created by these language differences.The analysis of the topic is undergoing through term definition and case study.The paper might be of some help to further the humorous research in literature,art,academic circles or daily conversations.More methods of analysis,at the same time,are appreciated.展开更多
As we all know,Mark Twain is an expert in handling humor.The formation of his language style has close connection with three aspects.Local literature influences Mark Twain very much.Western humor is another influentia...As we all know,Mark Twain is an expert in handling humor.The formation of his language style has close connection with three aspects.Local literature influences Mark Twain very much.Western humor is another influential element.And his personal experience is also contributed to his humorous language style.展开更多
Denkon was a famous woman dancer.She was very beau-tiful and successful in dancing,but she wasn’t bright.Bernard Shaw was a world-famous writer and humorist,but he was an ordinary-looking man.
By exploring cooperative principle and conversation,especially from the semantic and pragmatic way,this article tries to explore how the cooperative principle makes effect in humorous conversations.It turns out that t...By exploring cooperative principle and conversation,especially from the semantic and pragmatic way,this article tries to explore how the cooperative principle makes effect in humorous conversations.It turns out that the humor comes out more from the semantic as pect.Hence it is proposed that it should focus more on the semantic meaning to achieve humor.At last,the significance of applying humor ous conversation in teaching spoken English is also discussed.展开更多
This paper takes an integrative approach to the communication and comprehension of humor from the perspectives of the humorist’s manipulation and the recipient’s vigilance informed by relevance theory.It is proposed...This paper takes an integrative approach to the communication and comprehension of humor from the perspectives of the humorist’s manipulation and the recipient’s vigilance informed by relevance theory.It is proposed that,in order to communicate humor,the humorist manipulates the recipient’s expectation of relevance in the setup and in the punchline in two different but related ways:misleading and guiding.It is also proposed that,in order to comprehend and appreciate humor,the recipient exercises vigilance against his/her own shallow processing in the setup and exercises vigilance for special cognitive effects in the punchline.On this approach,humorous communication and comprehension is viewed as an interaction between manipulation and epistemic vigilance.Strategies of manipulation and vigilance are described,and some essential issues arising from the relevance-theoretic approach to humor are reconsidered with some implications drawn.This paper contributes to enhancing the explanatory power of relevance theory for the communication and comprehension of humor.展开更多
Humor is a kind of literature that can be found everywhere in our daily life. It is also a kind of language art that can be created by various reasons. This essay will analyze humor from a knowledge of pragmatics—coo...Humor is a kind of literature that can be found everywhere in our daily life. It is also a kind of language art that can be created by various reasons. This essay will analyze humor from a knowledge of pragmatics—cooperative principle (CP) and show how the humorous effect achieved ascribed to the breaking the four maxims of the cooperative principle. It also provides a lot of examples to show how to achieve humorous effect by applying Grice’s cooperative principle. The creation of humor and violation of CP have close relationship. Violating CP in the surface may create humor. A better understanding about humor will be achieved under an analysis of CP. As a linguistic phenomenon, humor has its own charm. It’s good medicine,that can improve interpersonal relationships and make others feel comfortable.展开更多
Chinese audience love British comedy for its unique humorous effect, and the interlingual communication of humorous effects has become a major problem affecting the audience's viewing experience. Taking the subtit...Chinese audience love British comedy for its unique humorous effect, and the interlingual communication of humorous effects has become a major problem affecting the audience's viewing experience. Taking the subtitle translation project of Black Books as an example, this paper analyzes the subtitle translation of humorous elements in the sitcom Black Books from the per?spective of functional equivalence theory, combining the characteristics of British comedies, explains how humor in sitcoms tran?scends regional, cultural and linguistic barriers to make the target audience feel the effect of humor in sitcoms, and provides cor?responding subtitle translation strategies. Through this research, the author hopes to achieve the transmission effect of humor, op?timize the viewing experience of the target language audience to a certain extent, and promote cultural exchanges.展开更多
Though with different times and backgrounds,these three masterpieces-"The Egg","The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"and"Shiloh"all humorously characterize the same type protagonist-the"l...Though with different times and backgrounds,these three masterpieces-"The Egg","The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"and"Shiloh"all humorously characterize the same type protagonist-the"little man".Penetrating the humorous characterization,the three works on the one hand present the rational question of the mainstream society and the serious critique of the dominant forces,on the other hand,they also offer the humanistic affirm and concern of the marginalized little man.Thus,bundle these three master pieces together,this paper makes an effort to analyze the humorous characterization of the little man;the comic gender relationships so as to figure out the coherent thematic significance as well as the philosophical seriousness of humor in these three masterpieces.展开更多
Recently,there has been an unprecedented high cost of living,widespread frustration,and discontent among Nigerians who attribute their experiences to the high-handed leadership style of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu(PBA...Recently,there has been an unprecedented high cost of living,widespread frustration,and discontent among Nigerians who attribute their experiences to the high-handed leadership style of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu(PBAT),popularly calledÈmi lókàn.To mitigate the arduous experiences and emotional stress caused by PBAT’s impromptu stringent policies and self-imposed exchange rate brouhaha,individuals seek out social media platforms with user-generated humorous memes(HMs).This study,cast in the interpersonal theory of multimodality,multimodality,and uses and gratification theory,investigates how HMs are deployed as resources to evaluate themes that project indices of economic downturn in Nigeria.The data for the study comprises eighteen(18)purposively selected online memes analyzed by deploying theoretical concepts that are symbolic,interactional,analytic,reactional,etc.,to interpret the memes both in isolation and as ensembles.Eleven thematic classes of memes that project and accentuate current harsh economic realities were categorized.The study posits that memes evoke distinct reactions,which positively signal intersubjective engagements on the economic downturn,and do not only serve for humor but also to mitigate shared experiences,propagate public aware-ness,castigate and satirize government’s ineptitude,help users to make important lifestyle changes,and find moments of levity in adversity.展开更多
A man went to see his doctor one daybecause he was suffering from pains in hisstomach. After the doctor had examinedhim, carefully, he said to him, "well,there’s nothing really wrong with you,
I say shake the world with my laughter, and shake everything back to the right place!I remember an article called "English is a crazy language", and I totally agreewith that! Never have I been a fan of this ...I say shake the world with my laughter, and shake everything back to the right place!I remember an article called "English is a crazy language", and I totally agreewith that! Never have I been a fan of this crazy language, yet I should say, it did,in some way, change my thinking pattern. Or probably I should say it is the展开更多
This study is the first to investigate how a local government’s humorously framed response strategy on social media to a low-severity crisis influences people ’s trust in the local government and their crisis-relate...This study is the first to investigate how a local government’s humorously framed response strategy on social media to a low-severity crisis influences people ’s trust in the local government and their crisis-related behavioral intentions,specific ally when considering the government’s responsibility for the crisis.Based on the situational crisis communication theory,we examined the mediating role of experienced positive or negative affect on people’ s responses to a local government’s crisis communication strategy.Further,we exploratorily examined the predictive power and moderating role of demographics,sense of humor,disposition to trust,and the respective crisis scenarios.A total of517 people participated in an online experiment in which they were confronted with three randomly presented fictive crisis scenarios where the local government’s crisis responsibility(high versus low) and the framing of their crisis response strategy(in form of humorous versus rational Twitter posts) were systematically varied between subjects.First,the results mostly corroborate earlier findings about the degree of crisis responsibility(that is,when a government’s crisis responsibility is high,people have less trust and behavioral intentions) and about the mediating role of experienced affect.Second,we found that humorously framed strategies negatively influence trust and positive affect(but not behavioral intentions).In contrast to earlier findings,the crisis responsibility × framing interaction was not significant.Altogether,the results advise against using humor in crisis communications on social media,even in lowseverity crisis.Exploratory analyses indicate that further investigations should focus on specific crisis characteristics and potential moderators.展开更多
文摘This paper analyzes the humorous effects generated through the non-observance of Grice’s Cooperative Principle(CP)in the Chinese crosstalk Learning Manchu.Focusing on violations of the Quantity,Quality,Relation,and Manner maxims,it examines how deliberate pragmatic deviations create comedy.The study also incorporates the unique crosstalk mechanism of“Baofu”(packaging and delivering jokes)and emphasizes the essential role of audience cooperation in humor reception.It argues that humor in crosstalk arises not only from performers’non-cooperation but also from active audience engagement within a shared cultural context.
文摘This paper makes a systematical study on the translating strategies of humorous language,with linguistic and cultural factors taken into consideration in the discussion.It should be pointed out that whatever strategy is chosen in translation,it is workable so long as it can reach the best humorous effect.
文摘Humorous utterances,especially those in the form of conversation in life,have distinctive pragmatic features.There is a close relationship between humor and pragmatics,which can be found in various books on pragmatics.In those books,humorous utterances function as examples for pragmatic analysis.Effective humorous languages often reflect one or several pragmatic features.This paper specifically introduces one of the important theories of pragmatics:cooperative principle,by which the paper analyzes the humorous utterance and explores the relationship between pragmatic rules and humorous utterance.The purpose is to make people know humorous utterance is a matter of pragmatics. The reality of the humor especially depends on implication of the language and the context.
文摘This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice's Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certain context. Through the analysis of representative dialogues which obey and violate the maxims respectively, this paper concludes that speakers, by appropriately violating the maxims and unconsciously observing the maxims of the CP, manage to achieve humorous effects and conversational implicature. Meanwhile, this paper aims to help people express themselves appropriately to avoid pragmatic failures and achieve the goal of communication.
文摘Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain's humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain's works readily understood.
文摘Mammography is widely performed as a standardized procedure for breast cancer screening;however, women often feel some degree of pain during this procedure. Currently, there are limited options available for alleviating pain related to mammography. A non-medicinal approach to the alleviation of pain involves the effects of laughter on physical and psychological wellbeing. We therefore examined the possibility that humorous stimuli would alleviate the physical burden on women undergoing mammography. We assessed 29 women, 15 women received only conventional mammography (neutral group), while 14 women (humor group) watched a funny video during the same examination. The intensity of pain experienced during mammography was assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) and the VAS results showed a statistically significant difference (P = 0.007) between the two groups, with the humor group experiencing less pain. In an additional experiment, 14 women in the humor group also underwent conventional mammography without exposure to the funny video and pain was assessed by VAS. We found that the pain experienced during conventional mammography without the funny video was significantly greater than the pain experienced during the same mammography but with the funny video (P = 0.047). These findings suggested the possibility of alleviating pain during mammography by humorous stimuli.
文摘The paper is divided into Five Chapters,aiming to explain the humorous effect in our daily discourse in the perspective of linguistic analysis.It is another new discovery.Two languages have their own distinct features.When translating,we will find a lot of humorous effect created by these language differences.The analysis of the topic is undergoing through term definition and case study.The paper might be of some help to further the humorous research in literature,art,academic circles or daily conversations.More methods of analysis,at the same time,are appreciated.
文摘As we all know,Mark Twain is an expert in handling humor.The formation of his language style has close connection with three aspects.Local literature influences Mark Twain very much.Western humor is another influential element.And his personal experience is also contributed to his humorous language style.
文摘Denkon was a famous woman dancer.She was very beau-tiful and successful in dancing,but she wasn’t bright.Bernard Shaw was a world-famous writer and humorist,but he was an ordinary-looking man.
文摘By exploring cooperative principle and conversation,especially from the semantic and pragmatic way,this article tries to explore how the cooperative principle makes effect in humorous conversations.It turns out that the humor comes out more from the semantic as pect.Hence it is proposed that it should focus more on the semantic meaning to achieve humor.At last,the significance of applying humor ous conversation in teaching spoken English is also discussed.
文摘This paper takes an integrative approach to the communication and comprehension of humor from the perspectives of the humorist’s manipulation and the recipient’s vigilance informed by relevance theory.It is proposed that,in order to communicate humor,the humorist manipulates the recipient’s expectation of relevance in the setup and in the punchline in two different but related ways:misleading and guiding.It is also proposed that,in order to comprehend and appreciate humor,the recipient exercises vigilance against his/her own shallow processing in the setup and exercises vigilance for special cognitive effects in the punchline.On this approach,humorous communication and comprehension is viewed as an interaction between manipulation and epistemic vigilance.Strategies of manipulation and vigilance are described,and some essential issues arising from the relevance-theoretic approach to humor are reconsidered with some implications drawn.This paper contributes to enhancing the explanatory power of relevance theory for the communication and comprehension of humor.
文摘Humor is a kind of literature that can be found everywhere in our daily life. It is also a kind of language art that can be created by various reasons. This essay will analyze humor from a knowledge of pragmatics—cooperative principle (CP) and show how the humorous effect achieved ascribed to the breaking the four maxims of the cooperative principle. It also provides a lot of examples to show how to achieve humorous effect by applying Grice’s cooperative principle. The creation of humor and violation of CP have close relationship. Violating CP in the surface may create humor. A better understanding about humor will be achieved under an analysis of CP. As a linguistic phenomenon, humor has its own charm. It’s good medicine,that can improve interpersonal relationships and make others feel comfortable.
文摘Chinese audience love British comedy for its unique humorous effect, and the interlingual communication of humorous effects has become a major problem affecting the audience's viewing experience. Taking the subtitle translation project of Black Books as an example, this paper analyzes the subtitle translation of humorous elements in the sitcom Black Books from the per?spective of functional equivalence theory, combining the characteristics of British comedies, explains how humor in sitcoms tran?scends regional, cultural and linguistic barriers to make the target audience feel the effect of humor in sitcoms, and provides cor?responding subtitle translation strategies. Through this research, the author hopes to achieve the transmission effect of humor, op?timize the viewing experience of the target language audience to a certain extent, and promote cultural exchanges.
文摘Though with different times and backgrounds,these three masterpieces-"The Egg","The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"and"Shiloh"all humorously characterize the same type protagonist-the"little man".Penetrating the humorous characterization,the three works on the one hand present the rational question of the mainstream society and the serious critique of the dominant forces,on the other hand,they also offer the humanistic affirm and concern of the marginalized little man.Thus,bundle these three master pieces together,this paper makes an effort to analyze the humorous characterization of the little man;the comic gender relationships so as to figure out the coherent thematic significance as well as the philosophical seriousness of humor in these three masterpieces.
文摘Recently,there has been an unprecedented high cost of living,widespread frustration,and discontent among Nigerians who attribute their experiences to the high-handed leadership style of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu(PBAT),popularly calledÈmi lókàn.To mitigate the arduous experiences and emotional stress caused by PBAT’s impromptu stringent policies and self-imposed exchange rate brouhaha,individuals seek out social media platforms with user-generated humorous memes(HMs).This study,cast in the interpersonal theory of multimodality,multimodality,and uses and gratification theory,investigates how HMs are deployed as resources to evaluate themes that project indices of economic downturn in Nigeria.The data for the study comprises eighteen(18)purposively selected online memes analyzed by deploying theoretical concepts that are symbolic,interactional,analytic,reactional,etc.,to interpret the memes both in isolation and as ensembles.Eleven thematic classes of memes that project and accentuate current harsh economic realities were categorized.The study posits that memes evoke distinct reactions,which positively signal intersubjective engagements on the economic downturn,and do not only serve for humor but also to mitigate shared experiences,propagate public aware-ness,castigate and satirize government’s ineptitude,help users to make important lifestyle changes,and find moments of levity in adversity.
文摘A man went to see his doctor one daybecause he was suffering from pains in hisstomach. After the doctor had examinedhim, carefully, he said to him, "well,there’s nothing really wrong with you,
文摘I say shake the world with my laughter, and shake everything back to the right place!I remember an article called "English is a crazy language", and I totally agreewith that! Never have I been a fan of this crazy language, yet I should say, it did,in some way, change my thinking pattern. Or probably I should say it is the
文摘This study is the first to investigate how a local government’s humorously framed response strategy on social media to a low-severity crisis influences people ’s trust in the local government and their crisis-related behavioral intentions,specific ally when considering the government’s responsibility for the crisis.Based on the situational crisis communication theory,we examined the mediating role of experienced positive or negative affect on people’ s responses to a local government’s crisis communication strategy.Further,we exploratorily examined the predictive power and moderating role of demographics,sense of humor,disposition to trust,and the respective crisis scenarios.A total of517 people participated in an online experiment in which they were confronted with three randomly presented fictive crisis scenarios where the local government’s crisis responsibility(high versus low) and the framing of their crisis response strategy(in form of humorous versus rational Twitter posts) were systematically varied between subjects.First,the results mostly corroborate earlier findings about the degree of crisis responsibility(that is,when a government’s crisis responsibility is high,people have less trust and behavioral intentions) and about the mediating role of experienced affect.Second,we found that humorously framed strategies negatively influence trust and positive affect(but not behavioral intentions).In contrast to earlier findings,the crisis responsibility × framing interaction was not significant.Altogether,the results advise against using humor in crisis communications on social media,even in lowseverity crisis.Exploratory analyses indicate that further investigations should focus on specific crisis characteristics and potential moderators.
