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The Research On Allegorical Saying’s Humorous Pragmatic Effection

Posted on:2016-03-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H X WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330464457348Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Allegorical saying is not only a popular kind of language forms in our daily life,but also an important part of Chinese phenomenon system, In Chinese phenomenon system, allegorical saying is unique with its structure and humorous pragmatic effection, which has attracted many linguistics’ exploration on it. The history of the research on allegorical saying is nearly a century since the last century 20 s.Linguists’ research mainly on the naming, definition, classification, property, rhetoric, and the relationship between the two halves of it. With the development of cognitive linguistics, linguists gradually focus their study on the cognitive of allegorical saying,. In recent years, most of the studies of allegorical saying are on the angle of metaphor, metonymy, conceptual integration. But first of all,as we know, allegorical saying is a very colloquial language form, the research whether on theory problems, or the perspective of cognitive metaphor, must on the actual context. Second, although it is the form that makes it different from other Chinese phenomenon, the essential characteristics of allegorical saying is the generation and the cognitive mechanism of its humorous pragmatic effection, that is to say, the most important issue is the reason why express some certain emotions and attitudes with other words, not directly. As the fast development of linguistics research, I think the research on allegorical saying needs to keep pace with the times. So this paper is mainly about allegorical saying’s humorous pragmatic effection, which is the central topic of this paper.The full text include four chapters, the first chapter is the introduction of the research on allegorical saying,This is theoretical basis of the full text; The second chapter is the discussion on its pragmatic effect,from the comparison between allegorical saying’s and idioms demonstrates that the humor is the most prominent pragmatic effect of allegorical saying’s.On this basis, this part discusses the main body of the humor, and the specific influence on nomal communications; Chapter 3 and chapter 4 are the main part of the text, mainly discusses the generation of allegorical saying’s humorous pragmatic effection and its cognitive mechanism. The examples in this paper are all the sketches of some famous scripts and classical novals,as these cases can be more comprehensive and vivid on the reseach of the generation and its cognitive mechanism of allegorical saying’s humorous pragmatic effection.
Keywords/Search Tags:Allegorical saying, Humor, Pragmatic effect, Generation mechanism, Cognitive mechanism
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