Comparative Syudy On A Way To The Ancient And Modern Linguistic Humor

Humor language is the most remarkable part among linguistic works, it is worthwhile to ruminate as well. Research towards humor has been long- standing, mean- while, the core of these research has been on the problem of creating and expressing humor. In recent few decades, research towards humor has achieved remarkably, but it is mostly focused on modern humor language, analysis and research towards ancient humor language is comparatively uncommon. Based on the existing research, proceeds from the point of language, this article has conducted comparative analysis on the characteristic of pronunciation; vocabulary and syntax in ancient and modern humor language, trying to find the similarities and differences of constitute forms in the above categories.This article is consisted of five parts. The first part introduces the reason in selecting this topic; research significance; research method and Corpus sources. The first chapter summarizes the existing research of ancient and modern humor language particularly. The second chapter analyses on the problem of how ancient and modern humor language use pronunciation to create humor by contrast. It is concluded that they are much the same on the aspects of quantity and frequency. But modern humor language uses the way of” pause” more on both quantity and frequency compared with the ancient, and the ways of using pause is more diverse. Chapter three mainly analyses the formation of ancient and modern humor language on vocabulary. It turned out that when people use vocabulary to create humor. The difference on this issue is relatively obvious. Humor created by modern humor language is far more diverse than ancient humor language, as well as the quantity of it.