A Pragmatic Study Of Verbal Humor In "Talking" After "Tonight"

Tonight80’s Talk Show is founded by the dragon TV, It is a talk show that has high culture. The host Wang Zijian’s language is full of humor, funny, fashionable, sharp, which cause the audience’s care about social events,news, thinking, and reflections on their own. In Tonight80’s Talk Show, Wang Zijian’s interacting with the audience is a verbal communication process, mainly includes two aspects:one is the generation,the other is comprehension, the generation of humorous is the process that speak choose the language, code, pronunciation and vocabulary carefully. the program can make people laugh, relieve pressure, cause people to think about the effect by the choice of the words. Because most of Wang Zijian’s humorous utterances are analog the things happens in his colleagues or friends, so there are flexible transformation between two kinds of context, this is the one big characteristic of Tonight80’s Talk Show that are different from the other programs. At the same time, it is clearly defined audience’s age and knowledge level,only within the scope of the people have a better understanding of the host’s humor and can have a more profound meaning, so that the audiences as the other body of communication, humor appreciation ability, the pursuit of relieve pressure, reverse the psychological and desire of modern aesthetic are the key factors influencing the humorous effect, this is another feature of the program. This article mainly talk about the stage words from June2013to December2013of Tonight80’s Talk Show, with the analyze the words that writer write it down after see the shows, with the basic principle of speech communication and pragmatic principle as the basic of theoretical, from the dimension of pragmatics Wang Zijian humorous words. After summary, describe, analyze, to explain the style of Wang Zijian’ humor and the formation of the humor.The paper mainly talk from five parts:the first is the introduction, introduced why I choose this topic, and the research status, ideas, methods as well as the special features and innovation. The second part defined the verbal humor and the feather of Tonight80’s Talk Show. The third part talk about verbal humor generation from the pragmatic perspective. first of all, explain Wang Zijian good humor art from the content of the humorous words and material composed such as code, pronunciation, vocabulary to; Secondly, analyze the building of Wang Zijian’s stage from the implication and speak context; Finally, the paper analyze Wang Zijian humorous language from the the application of the principles of politeness and a series of words. The fourth part, analyze the effect for the audiences to understand humor from the audience’s ability to appreciate humor, the psychological needs and aesthetic pursuit. The fifth part, the paper talk the show’s social significance and entertainment. From the perspective of pragmatics in Tonight80’s Talk Show’s humorous words which performance in the stage to make a more profound analysis and grasp, reveals the discourse from the pragmatic dimension of humor characteristic and its forming reason, make everybody as far as possible the understanding and the understanding from the essence of Wang Zijian talk style of humor.