Smart Riddles: Research From The Viewpoint Of Verbal Communication

Smart Riddles is a kind of language game with amusement quality, which is a kind of artificial creations, appearing with the form of question and answer. We pay attention to the amusement quality of Smart Riddles and try to announce how the amusement effect emerges. We think that the amusement effect emerges in the process of the speech communication between addresser and addressee. The research on Smart Riddles from the viewpoint of verbal communication is our places of innovation.This text observes the property and the composing of Smart Riddles first. We think that the property of Smart Riddles lies in that it is a kind of special verbal communication. This is the definition to the object. Closely we analyzed the composing elements of Smart Riddles:①communicative subjects-addresser and addressee;②communicative environment -the background of Smart Riddles(context);③communicative intention: amusement;④speech form-the question of Smart Riddles. We described the process of Smart Riddles:amusement intention→question of Smart Riddles→amusement intentionIn the achieving process of the amusement intention, the expression process of addresser is from the amusement intent to the question of Smart Riddles, the comprehension process of addressee is from the question of Smart Riddles to the amusement intention. We think that announcing how the amusement quality emerges actually is to observe the achieving process of the...