幽默作为生活的一个组成部分，几乎存在于生活的各个领域。它是一种独特的、普遍的人类交际方式，体现在报纸、杂志、戏剧、文学、电影、情景喜剧等多个领域。幽默作为人类的生活态度之一，在我们的日常生活中广泛应用于各个国家、各民族和各民族的文化。它不仅能给人们带来很多乐趣，还能帮助人们避免尴尬。幽默可以帮助人们营造轻松、轻松的气氛，使人们在社交关系和交流中变得更轻松、更快乐。幽默有助于人们增加亲密感，缩短与他人之间的距离。此外，幽默有效地处理生活压力，因为它给人们带来欢笑，释放不良情绪。如今，越来越多的人生活在巨大的压力下，因此幽默对于人们来说是非常必要的，以抵消压力的影响，并从中消除压力。同时，也是一种良好的人际关系的巩固和巩固的好方法。幽默研究一直是心理学界、社会学、人类学、民族学、美学、语言学等诸多学科关注的焦点。幽默的早期研究源于哲学和文学批评家。随着幽默研究的发展，它引起了其他学科学者的兴趣。因此，幽默研究逐渐成为一门综合性、综合性的多学科领域。
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
Humor, as an integral part of life, exists in nearly every field of life. It is a unique and universal communicative method of human beings which is embodied in many fields such as newspapers, magazines, dramas, literature, films, and situation comedies. As one of human being’s life attitude, humor is widely used in our daily life throughout every nation, every race and culture. It can not only bring people a lot of fun, but also help people avoid embarrassment. Humor which can help people create a relaxed and eased atmosphere often makes people become easier and happier in social relationship and communications. Humor helps people increase the intimacy and shorten the distance with others. Moreover, humor deals with the life stress effectively as it bring laugh to people and release the bad emotions. Nowadays, more and more people live with great pressure, therefore humor is very necessary for people to counteract the effects of stress and remove it from themselves. Meanwhile, it is also a good way to smooth and strengthen the interpersonal relationship. The study on humor is focused by a lot of scholars through many disciplines including psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, aesthetics, linguistics and so on. The early study of humor originated from the aspect of philosophy and literary critics. With the development of the study on humor, it appealed to the interest of scholars from other subjects. Thus, the study on humor gradually became a comprehensive and integrated multi-disciplinary field. According to Attardo(1994), linguists acquired a role among the central players of humor research, which were traditionally psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers until the late 1970s. After that the linguist pays more attention to the humor study. There is close connection between language and humor. On the one hand, language itself gradually becomes the subject of humor. The creation of humor widely applies the elements of language including its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic part.
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1.2 The Significance of the Study
In this thesis, Grice’s CP theory will be applied in the analysis of verbal humor. Cooperative Principle is the main theory in pragmatics. In the past, it is often employed to analyze the conversation in the real contractions or the given texts. Meanwhile, although situation comedy is one of the successful and remarkable carriers of verbal humor, there &n
