Linguistic Study Of Cold Jokes

Cold joke is a new language phenomenon, Along with the popularization of the network which has penetrated into the daily lives of youth groups. Occasionally explode of the cold joke can make the communication atmosphere become relaxed, also can show the talkers' humor and wisdom.The main application of joke are civilians, youth, students, white-collar workers who familiar with network and have good network skills, strong ability to accept new things and the spirit of innovation. They hold a positive attitude to cold jokes. Therefore, we can say that they are the main force in the emergence and development of cold joke. Because of their lack of linguistic theory traininglack, it is difficult to put cold jokes as a linguistic phenomenon to undertake special research. This really is a kind of regret. This article's purpose is precisely to make up for lack of theoretical study of cold jokes, the writer try to use the theory of linguistic knowledge to make a comprehensive study of interpretation of the mechanism.This article start from the origin of cold jokes, introduces the cold jokes about the background and the developing situation. Cold joke is a joke, but also has the very big difference, in this article the differences of jokes and cold jokes are studied, the writer determines the generalized cold jokes and narrow sense of cold jokes. On the basis, a series of analysis and research are Launched. This article summarizes the joke of the four main features:the network as the carrier, complete entertainment, the dual nature of their own values, post-modern deconstruction. The author has classified cold jokes, from the Angle of genre, cold jokes are divided into the story-type joke, problem-based, dialogue-based, column-type article, From the structure mode, cold jokes are divided into "borrowed rhetoric", "break time and space boundaries" "confused the conception ", " Language crossing", " illogical "," sophistry "," slip of the tongue. " The author study cold joke from pragmatic and cognitive perspective, using relevance theory respectively, deviation theory, the conceptual blending theory and framework migration theory analysis cold jokes' inner unscramble mechanism, make a deep analyses of the reason of smile. Cold jokes blasting one night, bring people in happiness, but also has some negative influence, we must take divided view on it, use it properly, make it towards a healthy direction.