The Study On Formal-repetition-Based Chinese Humour Language

Multidisciplinary by nature, the study of humor has been approached from various perspectives, such as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, literature, sociology and anthropology. However, the previous research, though somewhat comprehensive, hasn't yet generated systematic and thus convincing theories concerning the definition, the working mechanism of humor as well as its linguistic expressions. A unanimous viewpoint is still in question. Whereas, the awkward situation has been reversed to some extent with the publication of the first academic works tackling Chinese humors The linguistics of humors by Professor Hu Fanzhu in 1987, which serves as an impetus for the growing interest in and the ensuing waves fo studies of humors. It's worthwhile to note that the works itself lays the way for future and further research and thus plays a milestone-like role.The dissertation starts with a literature review of all the studies undertaken after the publication of Hu's work before summarizing the five perspectives involved, namely, the perspectives of traditional rhetorical study, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, language variation and cognitive linguistics. Though with some interpretive power to the language of humors, all of them, without any exception, fail to formulate any given boundary conditions in their theoretical framework. That is the defect common in these works.Because of this, In this study we tried to study Chinese Humor language from the view of formal repetition without consideration of language units of all levals in traditional linguistics.we list various kinds of formal repetition and give restrictions on it.The breakthrough in this paper is to study Chinese Humor Language from the point of formal repetition and formulate any given boundary conditions in their theoretical framework.,which many previous studies lack of.