英语会话笑话分析

笑话是指幽默的话语。本文着重对英语书面会话笑话的分析。从结构上看 ,一则话语只要具有能产生幽默效果的关键语句即成笑话 ;笑话中人物对“合作原则”四准则有意无意的违反常常产生幽默 ;关联理论对会话笑话中幽默的理解过程具有较强的解释力 :一方的已有假设与另一方提供的新信息之间的相互作用可以产生在前者看来是最佳关联的推理 ,而后者的另一个新信息表明前者推理的错误性 ;推理的错误性是幽默的根源。

ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH JOKES IN CONVERSATIONS

Jokes are the humorous words said or written. This paper analyzes English jokes in conversations. Through the analysis of the structure, it's found that once a discourse has the indispensable part(which is called "the linguistic core","the locus in language"or "the punch line")to bring about humor, it is a joke. The violation of the four maxims of "Cooperative Principle"often causes humor. As for the understanding of the humor in jokes, Relevance Principle provides a model:the interaction between A's hypothesis and B's information may produce the inference which is, to A, the product of optimal relevance; however, B's other information provided later proves the inference wrong. The wrong inference is the root of humor.