从关联理论角度解读《生活大爆炸》中的言语幽默

幽默话语诙谐、有趣，折射出人们的智慧和人生态度，给我们带来无限欢乐。本论文以Sperber和Wilson提出的关联理论为框架，探讨言语幽默的理解过程。论文主要研究幽默接受者的听者或读者如何找到幽默话语的关联性，从而感受到话语的幽默效果。
从关联理论的角度来看，幽默理解是一个听者寻找关联的认知过程，在这一过程中，关联原则发挥着重要的指导作用。要充分理解到幽默，一些信息对交际的双方必须是互明的。幽默交际中，听者首先感到话语不协调，不相关。在关联期待的驱使下，听者认为这种不相关是表面的，并进一步推断出说话人意欲传递的含意和态度，从而找到话语的幽默解读。

关键词: 关联理论；言语幽默的理解；《生活大爆炸》
Abstract
Humor is laughable and amusing. It reflects the speaker’s wisdom and attitudes towards life and brings us great pleasure. The present thesis is a tentative exploration into the process of verbal humor understanding within the framework of Relevance Theory. It attempts to analyze  how the hearer/reader, as the recipient of humor, seeks relevance of the humorous utterance and ultimately perceives its humorous effect.
From a relevance-theoretical point of view, humor understanding is a process of searching for relevance, in which the communicative principle of relevance plays an essential guiding role. In order to fully understand humor, the hearer finds out that the utterance is incongruous and irrelevant. Driven by the expectation of relevance, he assumes that this irrelevance is apparent and further infers implicit meanings or attitudes conveyed by the utterance. At this point, a humorous interpretation of the utterance is obtained. Humor understanding is thus a process in which the hearer finds “relevance” in what seems “irrelevant”.
For humor to be fully understood, some information should be mutually manifest to both sides of communication.

Keywords:  Relevance Theory  verbal humor interpretation   The Big Bang Theory

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