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A Study of Verbal Humor in Two Broke Girls from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

Author(s)

Guizhi Zhang*, Humei Ren

Affiliation(s)

Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, China * Corresponding Author.

Abstract

As an important social phenomenon in human society, humor exists in every aspect of daily life. A sitcom, as one of the television programs, is an important carrier of humor, especially discourse humor. Humor not only promotes people’s daily communication and brings joy to people, but also attracts the attention of the researchers from all fields all over the world. In recent years, many researchers have made in-depth research on English sitcoms from sociology, ethics, literature, art, film and television, music, translation, and other fields. However, there is little research to analyze it from the perspective of linguistics. It is of great significance to study English sitcoms from the perspective of linguistics. Based on the pragmatic Cooperative Principle (CP), this paper probes into the verbal humor strategies in the dialogues of the American sitcom Two Broke Girls. The findings show that: 1) Cooperative Principle provides a new perspective for the generation and interpretation mechanism of discourse humor; 2) Cooperative Principle plays a positive role in promoting daily communication, English learning and cross-cultural communication.

Keywords

Cooperative Principle; Humor; Sitcom

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