Pragmatic Perspective Of Chinese Humor Generated Mechanism

Humor is the laughable and meaningful work formation formulated by the people with a sense of humour for the particular purpose. It mainly implies the connotation of profound significance in the verbal works, pictures and shapes, using the very interesting verbal signs and the relaxed, humorous non-verbal signs, in order to obtain the information-received effects that exceding all expectations. It reflects the humor users' knowledge, experience, self-cultivation, wisdom and ability of using linguistic signs and non-linguistic signs.In our daily verbal communication, humor is also omnipresent such as shadow with go. The creation of humor can't get away from the inside regulation of language on one hand, like homophonic; on the other hand, to a large extent it's also decided by the using conditions of language in the concrete context. The mission of the pragmatics is to place the particular speech into the particular context, in order to explore the regulation of how to use the language in different communication environments.Therefore, this paper takes the verbal humor which is omnipresent in the daily life as our studying object, takes the humorous speech in Chinese as the linguistic materials and takes the pragmatic principles of verbal communication as the theoretical frame, aiming at systematically revealing the generative mechanism of the humorous speech in the particular context and the pragmatic factors that influence the effects of verbal humor, in order to understand and make use of humor better, raise the appreciating level and creative ability of humor.The full text is totally divided into five chapters to carry on the discussion:Chapter One is the preface, which gives a brief introduction of the studying object, the purpose and meaning of choosing this subject, the way of thinking and method of the study, and the present studying condition of humor. We mainly introduced the three great traditional theories about the study of humor, named Superiority/Disparagement Theory, Relief/Release Theory and Incongruity Theory, and the studying achievements of humor in linguistics realm.Chapter Two is the definition and category of humor. First we introduced the origin of the concept "humor", the evolution of its connotation, the different definition of its concept, and the introduction of "humor" into Chinese. Secondly we analysed the similarities and differences between humor and its neighbors, including joke, comic, irony and wit. We insists that there actually exist a crossing and mutual supplied relationship of "you do have me, I do have you" among them. Lastly, we divided the humor into scene humor and verbal humor.Chapter Three analyses the generative mechanism of Chinese humor under the pragmatic perspective. First we introduced the explanatory function of linguistic context to verbal humor and the restrictive function of non-lingustic context to verbal humor. Secondly we discussed the relation between the generation of humor and each pragmatic principle in the concrete context. We hold that applying the deixis in a flexible way, alternating the presupposition in different context, observing and violating the cooperative principle, slowing the ability of the speech acts, whether the speech is relevant etc. are all the direct pragmatic factors of generating humorous words.Chapter Four analyses the factors that influence the effects of verbal humor. Among them, the contents and environments of the times, the generators and appreciators of the humor, and the particular regional and cultural factors all influence the expressive effects of verbal humor. We hold that humor since is a kind of lingustic phenomenon, also is a kind of aesthetic phenomenon, and even more is a kind of special cultural phenomenon.Chapter Five is the conclusion part, which carries on a brief generalization to the contents of the full text, pointing out the shortcomings of our study and the research foreground of this subject in the future.