 | Over centuries,humor has been a hot topic that catches the attention of many scholars from different niagara outlet coach disciplines including philosophy,psychology,sociology,linguistics,
literature and other fields.coach factory outlet online storeAnd the research and theories of humor have been corrected,tested,and developed constantly. It is widely accepted that humor is an art and reflects a person’s wisdom,quality, knowledge,talent and inspiration.As a multi-disciplinary topic,it is closely related to many fields.Scholars have already probed into the analysis of the humor in diplomacy,literature, film,advertisement,daily conversation and other areas,and have proved that humor hasrecreational,social,psychological,
aesthetic,poetic and other functions.The language of humor is easy,natural,indirect and euphemistic,and is mostly used in dailyconversations,so it is more representative to study the humor in daily conversations.In everyday coach outlet niagara falls
communication,humor not only could bring happiness and laughter to people,but also could be used to criticize mildly,defend oneself,reduce the friction between people,resolve conflicts,thereby help people to get rid of the embarrassing situations they face and improve the
communicative atmosphere.Therefore,the study of humor in everyday communication will have great significance.
This thesis will focus on the conversations in everyday communication.
So it is necessary to quote some examples.Now,the author has to solve the problem:how and where will he get these materials?If he incites some examples arbitrarily,how can he prove the validity of the research results?Besides,if the author does it in this way,the scope is too wide,
he can not control it.After careful consideration,the author chooses Friends,a typical and successful American sitcom,as the research material.And the selection is not done at random; there are some reasons.In Friends,there are various kinds of humor and the number of
humor is large,which is convenient for the study;the dialogues in it are genuine to the ones in true life;its popularity has been accepted in the world.All these ensure the validity of the study.
Because of its popularity,it is certain that some research has been done on the humor in Friends,and the main theories include:relevance theory,
cooperative principle,speech coach factory outlet online store act, discourse analysis.Relevance theory holds that humor is obtained from the contrast between maximal relevance and optimal relevance.The cooperative principle attributes the production of humor to the violation of the maxims.At the same time,the misunderstanding of speech act brings about humor.Discourse analysis studies the generation of humor from four parts: discourse cohesion,niagara outlet coach
speech act,conversational principle and contextual dimension.
Additionally,contrastive analysis and politeness principle have also been used to interpret the humor in Friends.However,these researches are fragmentary,and no convincing theory could be used to better explain the generation of the humor in Friends.The generative mechanism of humor challenges interpretation.Therefore,a better theory should be found.
The booming of vague theory gives rise to a new approach to the study of humor.
Vagueness is an inherent property of natural language;
humorouslanguage also has the attribute of vagueness.The vague theory indicates that humor is created by setting vague area It seems that this theory has a more powerful coach outlet niagara falls
interpretation than other theories.Additionally,
few scholars appear to have studied humor from the perspective of vague theory,or at least they have not thoroughly explored the generative mechanism of humor from vague theory, therefore,this thesis applies vague theory to study humor in Friends,with the hope of finding
a perfect generative mechanism of humor. |  |
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