| The Humorous Short Message reflects various kinds of delight and wisdom by portable phone and language. It is becoming the new idol of communication. The distinct character on language is paid close attention by the linguistics. The degree deviation was put forward by Xijie Wang. It has rich achievements. But it is rarely focused on the demonstration research on Chinese. We try to discuss the degree deviation of humorous short massages by this theory in expectation of some new language disciplines.This article has six chapters. The first chapter is introduction. It explains the research object, the theory, and the significance. The second chapter defines the terms of the zero and degree deviation. And it analyzes the production of the degree deviation. The third chapter classifie and explains the humorous short message by degree deviation in "four worlds". The fourth chapter sets some examples to discuss the factor, theory, type and significance of positive deviation and negative deviation. The fifth chapter compares the degree deviation and figure of speech, and elaborates the relation between them. The sixth chapter is conclusion.Through the deviation study of humorous short messages, this paper gives us a conclusion as follows: first, a great deal of degree deviation can be found in the humorous short message. For example, deviation from the conventionality is a valid way of humor. Second, deviation is actualized from the language, but deviation is related to the need of the material world, the decency of the culture and psychology. Third, positive deviation andnegative deviation can transform into each other. This transform need social psychological culture as medium. Fourth, figure of speech is a category of deviation which has a set pattern, but they are not match each other very well, while we can find and predict new figure of speech by deviation. |