A Study on the Verbal Humor in Sitcom Friends from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle
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- 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_159How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Verbal humor; Cooperative Principle; Friends
- Abstract
Humor is an important spice in life and has long been the subject of research in many academic fields, including linguistics. The Cooperative Principle is a set of theories based on four maxims, which are the leading principles for generating a complete conversation between speakers. Violation of any of these four maxims results in the formation of conversational meanings, and thus linguistic humor. This article briefly introduces the main elements of the Cooperative Principle in pragmatics and its limitation and uses the script of the American TV sitcom Friends as an example. The author introduces the definition of sitcoms and a brief introduction to Friends. The article analyzes in detail the process of humor produced by the actors in the play by violating the cooperative principle, to improve readers’ understanding of the internal laws of English language humor. The process of humor produced by actors who violate the cooperative principle is analyzed in detail. The author found through the analysis that the principle of cooperation can be widely applied to discourse analysis, such as the element of humor.
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TY - CONF AU - Mengdi Dai PY - 2023 DA - 2023/02/13 TI - A Study on the Verbal Humor in Sitcom Friends from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle BT - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1244 EP - 1252 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_159 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_159 ID - Dai2023 ER -