The Study Of The Generation Of Humorous Utterances Of Mahua Funage's Skits In Spring Festival Evening Galas Upon The Perspective Of The Adaptation Theory

As a lubricant of social communication,humor has been paid close attention to and studied in the field of linguistics since the rapid development of cognitive science in the1970 s,and the study of humorous utterances is more favored,especially in drama and skits.However,throughout the existing studies,the objects of studies on humorous utterances of comedic skits most focus on Zhao Benshan 's group,and the pragmatic studies according to the theory of adaptation are even more rare.But it is undeniable that the theory of adaptation has a certain degree of explanatory power on the humorous utterances of skits,and as a new brand of entertainment,Mahua FunAge's humorous utterances of skits in Spring Festival Evening Galas are extremely attractive,with considerable research value and reference significance.Therefore,from the perspective of adaptation,this thesis makes an overall Linguistic research about the humorous utterances of Mahua FunAge for the first time,with the Mahua FunAge's seventeen original skits in Spring Festival Evening Galas of CCTV and local TV over the years as the object of study,and adopts the methods of study which is based on qualitative research and supplemented by quantitative research,combining language theories with real language materials organically to emphatically analyze the characteristics,Generation bases,generation modes and the characteristics of these modes of Mahua FunAge's humorous utterances of skits in Spring Festival Evening Galas,and attempts to find the theoretical and cultural roots behind it,further exploring the characteristics of its generation modes.This thesis is divided into six parts.The first part is the introduction,which elaborates research status,significance and methods of adaptation,humorous utterances,skits in Spring Festival Evening Galas and Mahua FunAge brand of entertainment so far,the sixth part summarizes the argument of this thesis and puts forward other relevant issues to be further studied.The main body of the thesis is the second to the fifth part,namely the first to the fourth chapter.The first chapter analyzes the characteristics of Mahua FunAge's humorous utterances of skits in Spring Festival Evening Galas from the aspects of diction,sentences and dialogues.It is characterized by novel words,rich in times,simple and complex sentences collocation,rich sentence patterns and sentence structures,and Mahua FunAge often create witty discourse through ingenious idea;the second chapter demonstrates that the generation of humorous utterances of skits is grounded on adaptation to mental,social,physical world through specific examples;the third chapter is the key point of the thesis,through the list of Mahua FunAge's humorous utterances of the seventeen skits,it illustrates four modes of thehumorous utterance generation in the view of adaptation,including phonetics,semantics,grammar and discourse,fifteen similar categories in total;the fourth chapter is the systematic summary of the characteristics of the generation modes,teasing out three characteristics,the first is to take adaptation as the the primary and paradox as the second,the second is the type of rich,different proportions,the third is the mix of different modes,ingenious combination,this is the prominent style which is different from other brands of entertainment of Mahua FunAge.