Generation Method of Verbal Humor in Sketch Comedy TO Pay or not to Pay Based on the Presupposition and CP
Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v6i4.2084
Abstract
Comedy sketch is a popular form of artistic expression, and much of their humour arises from verbal humour. Cooperative Principle and Pragmatic Presupposition are important theories in the study of pragmatics. Pragmatic Presupposition plays an important role in the generation of verbal humour. Comedy sketches create humorous effects by first establishing preconceptions in actors’ discourses and then evading them, which fails the audience’s psychological expectations, thus producing a humorous effect. Another way of producing humorous effects in sketches is through violating the quantitative, qualitative, relational, and manner maxims of the Cooperative Principle. Therefore, this paper applies the theory of the Cooperative Principle and Pragmatic Presupposition and uses the comedy sketch To Pay or not to Pay from the Spring Festival Gala of the Tiger as a corpus to explore the generation of verbal humor.
Keywords
verbal humor, comedy sketches, cooperative principle, pragmatic presupposition
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