On the pragmatic analysis of English verbal humor (英语论文).doc

On the pragmatic analysis of English verbal humor The so-called language humor, from the variation of language and create humor. The language is humorous atmosphere to success in the discourse of the dynamic show, the most fundamental source Yu Qichao conventional language structures, namely in the dialectical logic under the constraints of linguistics, philology, breakthrough, vocabulary, grammar and logic in the form of the common law, the declension of language material, resulting in not literally the comprehension of discourse. Verbal humor is to be effective, is the key to the language of conventional usage breakthrough. Analysis of verbal humor from the perspective of rhetoric alone is not enough, this article with the aid of pragmatic theories, from deixis, pragmatic presupposition, speech act theory, the theory of conversational implicature, relevance theory etc to analysis of English verbal humor. 1.Deixis and English verbal humor Deixis refers to the speech activity, especially in a speaker and listener participation of at least one of the typical language. In communicative activities, for the participants talked about people, things, events, processes such as action to make the exact understanding to them and certain contextual elements linked to this phenomenon.Deixis is the language and the use of specific language context of close relationships in language system in reflection. Pragmatic deixis in divided into personal deixis, time indicator, indication, textual instructions and social deixis. Deixis used properly, but the indication information clearly, such as improper use or context is unknown, will make the language project refers to the relationship between semantic ambiguity, thus becoming incomprehensible, even leads to contradictions and misunderstandings. Everyday humour is that people use language to this feature made. The following passage because of the wrong person deixis has led to the creation of humor. Nurse:Now lets tak