The Cognitive Mechanism of Humor―Based on Conceptual Blending Theory and Relevance Theory

• 作者: GAO Wencheng KANG Xinyu
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: HUMOR CONCEPTUAL BLENDING THEORY RELEVANCE THEORY
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（7）
• 页码范围: 293-299
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: G633.412

摘要

Humor, as a form of interesting interaction, often appears in our daily life. The purpose of this paper is to explore the cognitive mechanism of humor. It is found that humor is dependent on people’s relevance and inference in their minds, and also on the conceptual blending with its emergent structure. The authors hold that these two theories are supplementary to each other;the combination has even more powerful interpretation about the workings of humor generation.