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A Study On Linguistic Humor In TV Entertaining Program "Happy Camp"

Posted on:2012-08-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2178330332995798Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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"Happy Camp"is one of the most influential TV Entertainment programs in China in recent years, with language in which humorous, widespread, worthy of our attention. Most previous studies focused on the program of "Happy Camp" are in the field of mass media, broadcasting and marketing, whereas one of the most important factors that make it prevalent, of high market effects to gain the public's acceptance and support, its linguistic humor, is being ignored and nearly no scholar studied on it. In the past decades, there were a great deal of researches done in linguistic humor at home and broad, but it's rare to have an eye on the language in TV Entertainment programs. On the basic of those researches in terms of phonetics, rhetoric, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and intercultural communication, the thesis set about the study on the "Happy Camp", studying the ways of language performance in it, trying to find out to feature of humorous language in it ,study on account of its generating means ,language environment and influence.There are four chapters in the thesis. The first chapter is an introduction, where situation of study and significance of study have been introduced; object of study has been defined as well. The second chapter concludes the characteristics of humor in the program:"inconsistency","incompatibility"and"unconventional"in general characteristics and in terms of plebification and performance in particular. The third chapter analyzes how humor created in"Happy camp"in aspects of pronunciation, figure of speech, violation of the four cooperation named quantity maxim, quality maxim, relation and manner maxim, as well as visual language not only static but also dynamic. The fourth chapter analyses those social culture circumstance and audiences'psychology situation that contribute to its accepting of that kind of humor in"Happy camp"for audiences, introduces its influence itself and its humor statement's prevalence.
Keywords/Search Tags:"Happy Camp", linguistic humor, humor creation, language environment, humorous statement
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