The Study On The Humor Of The Host's Verbal Deviation In Life-experiment Programe Is It True

Is it true is a new type of life-experiment program hosted by Chinese-American talk show star Joe Wong,which is co-produced by CCTV finance channel and Enlight Media.The program adopts the innovative mode of "experiment" and "talk show humor".The verbal humor of hosts occupy a great proportion of the program.This paper adopts a integrated and comprehensive cognitive-ecology concept,with aim of extending the similarity between humor and daily communication in production,identification and function to verbal communication of hosts and exploring the law of hosts' speech.This paper attempts to study the characteristics of hosts in life-experiment programs,reveals the use law of the verbal humor of hosts,hopes to provide some help for the host's business practice.This paper selects speech deviation as breakthrough point in the first place.It proposes the classification criteria of direct deviation and indirect deviation based on the classification of Leech(2001)and Li Jie(2010)and psychological factors.It is demonstrated with a large number of examples that the most effective forms of verbal humor are phonetic,semantic and grammatical deviation in direct deviation and pragmatic and logical deviation in indirect deviation.Deviation is the essential characteristic of humor.Direct deviation is common in creating humor and mainly relies on analogy mechanism.Indirect deviation is often seen in the expression of humor mainly by default mechanism.Next,it focuses on two aspects to explore the restraining factors of host humor from the perspective of pragmatics.First,with the help of communication theory,reception theory and pragmatic cognition theory,it is very difficult to understand the type of audience and the expectation of the audience in humor.At the same time,this paper finds that context has great influence on the sense of humor.Except micro context(host)and middle context(program),the social and cultural part of the macro context is the root of humor by Joe Wong that is fundamentally different from the traditional Chinese humor.Then,This paper tries to summarize the special effects of the verbal humor of hosts of Is it true.One is to make the content of the program entertaining.By adjusting the atmosphere,it can dissolve the seriousness of the program;by increasing audience participation,it can provide entertainment for programs.The second is to make the host speech rich and vivid.At the same time,it can strengthen the effect of the host's discourse,and realize the role of emotional communication and value output.Last,after reviewing the overall review of Is it true,the paper concludes that there are some problems in the use of the verbal humor of hosts,such as excessive logic,audience stratification ambiguous,repetitive topics,ignore macro context.Put forward rationalization proposals,first,comprehensive consideration of various deviations,emphasis on reducing the frequency of logical deviation.Second,enhance the audience stickiness and accurate division of the audience Third,adhere to content based,refine the theme of humor.Four,attach importance to contextual differences,can learn from the traditional Chinese language forms.Five,pay attention to the humorous development of paralanguage.