Stephen Chow Movie Humor Language Study | Posted on:2011-07-27 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | Country:China | Candidate:N Huang | Full Text:PDF | GTID:2205360305468696 | Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | Zhou Xingchi's movies is a success story of the history of Hong Kong comedy film. It opened up a new type of comedy film and personalized language is an important factor in its charm.Zhou's film language is an typical and non-conventional language that the research about it can help us understand the reasons for the emergence and popularity of Zhou Xingchi's movies from the perspective of language and reveal the real charm of the language. In addition, the research of this unconventional language can effectively explain the close relationship between language and society,which further enrich our language research, and promote the further development of humorous language.There are a lot of studies about Zhou Xingchi's movies from the perspective movies angle,but the systematic studies from the linguistic point is rare and the results are relatively scarce. As the language of influential,Zhou Xingchi's movie language has been integrated into the language of our lives that young generation willing to accept and use.The research of Zhou Xingchi's movie language has theoretical and practical significance.Paper choose the dialogue of most influential and representive films that more than a dozen works of Zhou Xingchi to study and combined with research results of our predecessors. I made the first attempt from a macroscopic point of view of linguistics analyzes the characteristics of Zhou Xingchi's film language in order to have a comprehensive grasp of the language system. Paper is divided into three parts:the first part starting from the perspective of grammar, use of language in the film deviated from the theoretical deviation of voice, vocabulary deviate, grammatical and semantic deviation deviation were detailed in-depth analysis.Paper summed up the humor characteristics of Zhou Xingchi's film language, body language has a system of understanding.The second part of the system from the perspective of rhetoric of a Stephen Chow film humor language and Stephen Chow movies main rhetorical device Rhetorical humor causes the formation of personality.On the basis of his film language is reflecting the social and cultural connotations given a general introduction, so that more people up from the deep understanding of this unique language, experience the charm of the language does not make sense for us to enjoy Stephen Chowfilm language provides a new perspective. At the third part,i made the first attempt to apply Cooperative Principle, Presupposition theory and Relevance theory of pragmatics to study the humor mechanism of Zhou Xingchi's film language and reveal the reasons for their language produce humor.Paper also give the film a unique cultural background of a brief introduction, so we have Zhou Xingchi's movies glorify the spirit of entertainment with a deeper understanding. Zhou Xingchi's movies unlike some young praiseworthy as perfect, but it does not attack some people nothing, enjoy his films to bring us more laughter, but also led to many thought of our society and life in China. We should take a dialectical view of this language, both to be sure it's worth and also pay attention to its negative effects.we should absorb and inherit critically. | Keywords/Search Tags: | language of Zhou Xingchi's film, humor strategies, characteristics of humor, language charm | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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