Analysis of the Creation of Humor from the Perspective of Violating the Cooperative Principle--Reflecting from Joe Wong's Stand-Up Comedy

• 作者: HOU Junke
• 来源期刊: 国际英语教育研究:英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: Stand-up COMEDY HUMOR COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE violating
• 年，卷（期）: gjyyjyyjywb,（2）
• 页码范围: 94-96
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: G

摘要

Humor not only exists in people's daily life,but also through sketch,cross talk talk show,stand-up Comedy and other forms of performance to bring people happy.Many scholars analyze Joe Wong's stand-up comedy from the Relevance Theory.But few scholars analyze it from the Cooperative Principle.Based on a review of previous studies on stand-up comedy,this thesis selects some classic utterances from stand-up comedy of Joe Wong at Radio and Television Correspondent's Association Dinner(RTCA dinner),The David Letterman Show and The Ellen Show as a research corpus and studies the humor is created from the perspective of violating of the Cooperative Principle,and then attempts to help people understanding and appreciating American humor deeply.This thesis finds violating the Cooperative Principle(CP)is an important way for talk show performers to create humor,which will help them make people laugh.Besides,during this way,they can use many rhetoric tactics to help them,such as irony,exaggeration and pun.This thesis has important significances for the study of talk show's humor with the help of flouting the CP.Firstly,it contributes to the development of the talk show performs.Secondly,it can add more interesting things to communication and help the Chinese audiences to comprehend the American humor from a different aspect.Thirdly,it riches the theories of humor by violating the CP in the talk show programs.