A Study of Humor of The Actor’ s Lines in If You Are the One from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

In the thesis the author explores the humor of the actor’ s lines in If You Are the One from the perspective of cooperative princi ple and its four maxims in the context of pragmatics.Through analyzing the purposeful violation of the maxims in the environment of the cooperation principle,the author intends to probe into the ways the actors figure out the implicature of humorous utterances and manage to carry on the conversation and the reproduction of the amusing effect.     

A Study of Verbal Humor of Undergraduates from the Perspective of Co⁃operative Principle and Relevance Theory

Verbal humor has been widely studied from the perspective of the Cooperative Principle.The verbal humor of undergrad?uates,however,hasn’t been studied thoroughly.Corpus of verbal humor of undergraduates will be analyzed from the perspective of the Cooperative Principle and Relevance Theory.The analyses show that the pragmatic analysis of the verbal humor of the under?graduates can reveal humorous effects,which play an important role in their daily communication.     

A Probe into Humorous Effects of TV Programs from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle——A Case Study on If You Are the One

This paper probes into the dialogues in If You Are the One based on the theoretical framework of Grice’s Cooperative Principle, with a view to discovering humorous effects and conversational implicature in a certain context. Through the analysis of representative dialogues which obey and violate the maxims respectively, this paper concludes that speakers, by appropriately violating the maxims and unconsciously observing the maxims of the CP, manage to achieve humorous effects and conversational implicature. Meanwhile, this paper aims to help people express themselves appropriately to avoid pragmatic failures and achieve the goal of communication.     

Analysis of Premier Wen Jiabao’s Interview Talks from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

As a premier,Wen Jiabao’s interview talks are not only personal but to a larger extent,represent the Chinese government.So they are valuable material for the pragmatic study.This paper attempts to explore the pragmatic features of Premier Wen’s interview talks from perspective of Cooperative Principle.Based on this,it also tries to find out the conversational implicatures behind the Premier’s answering strategy and the communicative functions.     

An Analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.     

An Analysis of The Bonesetter’s Daughter from the Perspective of Feminist Narratology

Amy Tan(1952-)is a female Chinese-American writer.As a famous figure equal to Maxine Hong Kingston,Toni Morrison etc.,Amy has become"another pioneer"among the minority American writers.The Bonesetter’s Daughter is another masterpiece after The Joy Luck Club,The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses,which is published in 2001.The novel is about the life between the second-generation immigrant Ruth and her first-generation immigrant mother Luling.The stories in the novel are all narrated by female narrators.Through her novels,Amy Tan overthrows the traditional Chinese female images,shows rebel and fight of the female Chinese-Americans who are under the margin of a society dominated by patriarchy and full of racial discrimination and construct her own fictional authority.