国内图书分类号：H314
国际图书分类号：802.0
文学硕士学位论文
爱情公寓5开拍--以《老友记》和《爱情公寓》为例
硕 士 研 究 生 ： 徐净玉
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师 ： 王景惠教授
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请 学
位： 文学硕士
所 在 单 位 ： 外国语学院
答 辩 日 期 ： 2012 年 7 月 5 日
授予学位单位： 哈尔滨工业大学
Classified Index: H314
U.D.C.: 802.0
Graduation Thesis for the M. A. Degree
A Comparative Study of Humor Strategies
in Chinese and English Sitcoms
----A Case Study of Ipartment and Friends
Candidate: XU Jingyu
Supervisor: Prof. WANG Jinghui
Academic Degree Applied for: Master of Arts
Specialty: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Affiliation: School of Foreign Languages
Date of Oral Examination: July 1, 2012
Degree Conferring Institution : Harbin Institute of Technology
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摘要
情景喜剧中的幽默策略是近年来语言学领域的研究热点。西方幽默研究
主要关注三大传统幽默理论，语义脚本理论和言语幽默的一般理论。中国学
者则大多从语用学、认知语言学和修辞学角度，对情景喜剧、相声和脱口秀
中的言语幽默进行文本分析。本文采用个案研究的方法，从认知语用学角度
对《爱情公寓》和《老友记》两部中英情景喜剧中的言语幽默进行对比分析，
旨在拓展人们对情景喜剧中的幽默策略及中英情景喜剧中幽默策略异同的认
识，从而有助于对幽默作品的欣赏和跨文化交际活动的顺利进行。
本项研究从《爱情公寓》和《老友记》中各选取两集作为研究对象，对
文本中的言语幽默进行标记。然后，结合语境，从合作原则、礼貌原则、关
系理论、预设和指示五个方面对文本中标记的幽默进行语篇分析，进而对标
记的言语幽默进行了分类。
研究发现：1. 两部剧中均使用了如下五种幽默策略----违反合作原则；违
反或故意遵守礼貌原则；制造最大关联和最佳关联之间的差异；说话者的预
设不合理；在不恰当的语境中使用指示词。2. 无论在汉语还是英语文本中，
违反合作原则在上述五种幽默策略中均居主要位置。3. 违反礼貌原则这一策
略在所选英文文本中所占比重要比在所选中文文本中所占比重更大。总之，
中英情景喜剧中的幽默策略存在多处共同点；同时，也有不同。本文有助于
认知语用学理论框架下的幽默研究。
关键词：对比研究；中英情景喜剧；幽默策略
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Abstract
In recent years, humor strategies in sitcoms have become a heated topic in the
research field of linguistics. Humor study in the west explores three conventional
humor theories, the semantic-script theory of humor and the general theory of
verbal humor, while Chinese scholars tend to analyze humorous utterances in
sitcoms, cross talks and talk shows from the perspective of pragmatics, cognitive
linguistics and rhetoric. This study compares humorous utterances in Ipartment
and those in Friends, aiming to explore humor strategies employed in sitcoms and
the similarities and differences of humor strategies used in Chinese and English
sitcoms via the research method of case study. The study can help people with
their appreciation of humorous literature, and meanwhile, can bring them
enlightenment about how to create and interpret a verbal humor appropriately in
intercultural activities.
Two episodes are picked out of Ipartment and Friends respectively as the
research discourses, and then verbal humors in the chosen discourses are identified
and marked. Based on the context, those marked humorous utterances are analyzed
in the discourse analysis approach from perspectives of Cooperative Principle,
Politeness Principle, Relevance Theory, presupposition and deixis. Thereby the
marked verbal humors are categorized.
Main findings of the study are: 1. The two sitcoms both employ the following
five humor strategies----the speaker flouts the Cooperative Principle; the speaker
violates or abides by the Politeness Principle; there is a gap between the maximal
relevance and the optimal relevance; the speaker’s presupposition is unreasonable;
deixis is used in an inappropriate context. 2. In both Chinese and English sitcoms
of the case study, the humor strategy of flouting the Cooperative Principle is most
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commonly used among the above five humor strategies. 3. The humor strategy of
violating the Politeness Principle is more widely employed in the chosen English
sitcom than in the chosen Chinese sitcom. In sum, both similarities and differences
are found in humor strategies employed in Chinese and English sitcoms. The
thesis contributes to the humor study within the framework of cognitive
pragmatics.
Keywords: comparative study; Chinese and English sitcoms; humor strategy
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Contents
摘要 ......................................................................................................................... i
Abstract ..................................................................................................................ii
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