Research On The Crosstalk Art Of Guo Degang

Based on the Crosstalk art of Guo Degang, the thesis combines content analysis with Crosstalk works of Guo Degang as the method to study a plenty of Guo Degang’s Crosstalk works more than300.000words and60Guo Degang’s works. This article is set in Guo Degang development history of both the art of Crosstalk and Guo Degang. The paper analyses current situation of Crosstalk and shows artistic features of the Guo Degang’s Crosstalk. The present study aims to analyze artistic features of the Guo Degang’s Crosstalk from pragmatic perspective. His Crosstalk grounds in reality, with keeping pace with the times, increasing the audience’s interest in Crosstalk, has distinctive artistic charm. The last part of the paper explains the modern significance and shortcomings of Guo Degang’s Crosstalk. His Crosstalk has more breakthrough than traditional Crosstalk and returns to theatre. The text is divided into three parts:The first chapter describes the development of both Guo Degang and the art of Crosstalk. From the development and fading of Crosstalk in China, we can see a long historical process of formation and evolution overtime. In order to comprehend the background of Guo Degang’s Crosstalk art, his personal experience should be analyzed detailedly.The second chapter discusses the features of Guo Degang’s Crosstalk, including baggage features and rhetorical use. The text introduces the language features of Guo Degang’s Crosstalk with examples such as using same words in different contexts, creating paradox, misunderstanding deliberately and wielding improvisations. Based on rhymes, exaggeration, rhetorical question, comparison, and parallel construction, we should take the skills of rhetoric as example to analyze the artistic features of his Crosstalk. In the third chapter, the purpose is to analyze the modern significance of Guo Degang’s Crosstalk, judges his works and points out the great influences Guo Degang brings to our society. He inherits and develops traditional Crosstalk and makes the Crosstalk come back to theater again. However, Guo Degang’s Crosstalk is not perfect for it contains some shortcomings and still has spaces to improve.