Pragmatic Analysis on the Humor of
the American Situation Comedy Friends
Abstract: Humor is a kind of esntial sauce to people's life. Firstly this thesis puts forward the concept of humor, and briefly illustration of pragmatic theories will be involved in the thesis. Then it analys some of humorous lines from “Friends” as examples combined with pragmatic theories. Through comprehensive summary and analysis, it aims at 私人教练培训guiding students to grasp related pragmatic theories in English study correctly and improving English learners’ comprehension to English humor.
Key words: Friends; Humor; Relevance Theory; Cooperative Principle; Face-saving Theory
美国情景喜剧《老友记》中幽默的语用分析
摘 要：幽默是人们生活中必不可少的一种调味料，本论文首先提出幽默的概念及将要涉及
的语用学理论，并简单阐述，再以美国著名情景喜剧《老友记》中的部分幽默台词为例结合理论进行分析，通过全面地归纳和分析，本文旨在正确指导英语学习中对相关语用理论的掌握，从而更好地学习和运用英语，提高英语学习者对英语幽默的理解。
关键词：老友记；幽默；关联理论；合作原则；面子理论
Contents
Introduction
1 Brief introduction of Friends
1.1 Esntial information
1.2 Bare bones of plot
1.3 Lingual characteristic
2 Definition of humor
3 Related pragmatic theory
3.1 Relevance Theory
3.2 Cooperative Principle
3.3 Face-saving Theory
4 Analysis of the lines
4.1 Relevance Theory
4.1.1 Pun
4.1.2 Idiom
4.2 Cooperative Principle
4.2.1 Irony
4.3 Face-saving Theory
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Pragmatic Analysis on the Humor of
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the American Situation Comedy Friends
Introduction
Humor can relea the mental pressure, adjust the relationship among people, also can defend the psychological injury. F. Kohl once said “the American would rather to acknowledge committed the treason, the murder, the arson, to install the artificial tooth, to wear the wig, even would not rather to acknowledge their n of humor is deficient ”. The American situation comedy Friends made the glorious viewing rate and obtained the high prai of global audience, also can explain that
the American paid attention to the n of humor continuously. 英语四级试题及答案This situation comedy telecasted 10 years and still be popular in world-wide. It took many charming amusing lines to the audience in each part. The lines are worth analyzing and concluding, we can understand the humorous effects better after combining the pragmatic theory.
1 Brief introduction of Friends
Friends is an American situation comedy that has many faithful audiences. If someone just watchinvalidargumentes an episode, he will love the wonderful plots and humorous dialogues. The following will introduce esntial information, bare bones of plot and lingual characteristic of Friends.
1.1 Esntial information
Friends is a humorous situation comedy, which垃圾邮件英文 broadcasted since 1994 by NBC Television Station and had broadcasted ten years continuously. It produced By Warner br
others company. Since Friends was broadcasted, it was one of the most famous TV play in comancheNBC television network. Complete TV play altogether had 237 volumes. Once it ttled the record of fifty-three million viewing rate in 1996.
1.2 Bare bones of plot
The story mainly described a ries of stories about six good friends’ life. They lived in New York from acquaintances to afterward go through ten year together. Ross(paleontologist) and Monica(chef) are Judean brother and sister who live in Manhattan. Opposite their apartment, lives Chandler(director of a company) and Joy(third-grade actor have Italy lineage). Chandler is Ross’s university roommate and the best friend. Except for the four people eccentric Phoebe(chiropractor) also live there. She was Monica’s roommate. Five person gather frequently in Monica’s big apartment or at the downstairs Central Park(a cafe) at leisure time.
At the first volume of start, Monica’s good friend in high school, Rachel runs away from wedding to the Central Park, and meets Monica by chance, also meets Ross who unreq
uited loved her. Becau of pasls, Rachel lives in Monica’s hou with everybody’s help. Six friends start the life which they never experienced before.
1.3 Lingual characteristic
Friends displays American unique humorous style fully. Pun, idiom, irony and ambiguity frequently ud in the lines, and they can help to achieve the humorous effect. For the vast English learners, analyze how the humor of Friends produced and applied, not only can boost grasp of related pragmatic theory in English study but also be able to deepen understanding of the English humor.
2 Definition of humor
Humor was transliterated by Lin Yutang from English in 30’s 20th centuryedge是什么. It’s a kind of linguistic art and a form of linguistic communication, soldierswhich appears frequently in people’s daily dialogue.
It means a ntiment that can make people smile. In daily life, people always laugh out lo胖男人穿衣搭配
udly becau of somebody or something and the main cau is humor. In 1985, Nash provided a definition of humor: “Humor is humanity's unique nature ”. But a famous writer George Bernard Shaw propod in his collected works: “We can not make the definition of humor; it is an element to make people laugh”. It is not difficult to e that the humor is particular and important from this. It can play a promotive role in the process of people’s exchange of information or emotion.
3 Related pragmatic theory
This thesis will involve 小学 语文Relevance Theory, Cooperative Principle and Face-saving Theory. The following will introduce the origin, development and basic concept about the theories parately.
3.1 Relevance Theory
