A Pragmatic Study Of Humor In "Happy Comedian"

Since the issuance of the "Restricted Entertainment Order" by the State Administration of Radio,Film and Television in 2013,major TV stations have turned their attention to comedy TV programs.The comedy show has been on the rise for a while,and it has been blown out in 2014.In 2014,it was also called "the first year of comedy".However,there are few comedy TV programs that can withstand the test of time and audience after several years of development.The "Joy Comedian " jointly launched by Oriental TV and Happy Media and Huaru Baina is undoubtedly the dark horse of comedy TV programs.Based on the slogan "Funny,we are serious",the dark horse collected top comedy teams in China and adhere to the original content,therefore,bring a different audio-visual feast to the audience.The rise of this comedy program has aroused the attention of journalism and communication and drama scholars,and has carried out research on the background of its rise,the status quo of development,the reasons for the broadcast,the problems existing and the coping strategies.There are very few scholars pay attention to the content and verbal features of popular comedy variety shows.This paper aims to study the humorous effects produced by the program from the perspective of pragmatics,in order to broaden the research perspective of comedy.This paper is mainly composed of four parts:the first part is the introduction part,which introduces the research object and the reason of the topic selection,the humorous language and the research status,research methods,research significance and corpus source of "Joy Comedian ".The second part illustrates the humorous effect generation mechanism of "Joy Comedian" from the perspective of conversation analysis by using the concept of the macro structure of the conversation and the turn-taking,adjacent pairs,feedback items,revised structure,repeated structure,and interrupted speech structure of the conversation analysis are analyzed.The third part analyzes the formation mechanism of the humorous effect of "Joy Comedian" from the perspective of language ontology,sub-language and pragmatics.The fourth part is to analyze the acceptance of the humorous effect of "Joy Comedian" from the perspective of the audience.Through the quantitative interview questionnaire survey and online questionnaire survey,I obtained the audience's acceptance of the comedy program and its form of laughter.Summarizing the problems existing in the comedy program and present corresponding suggestions and countermeasures.The comedy forms in " Joy Comedian " include sitcoms,cross talks,talk shows,and pantomimes.The sitcoms include rich lines,body movements,and stage design.Therefore,the corpus of this article mainly comes from sitcoms and consider the language of cross talk and talk show at the same time.This paper researches the humorous language of " Joy Comedian " from the perspective of pragmatics.On the one hand,it broadens the research angle of " Joy Comedia" on the other hand,it adds a new corpus to the study of linguistics.On the basis of the research of " Joy Comedian ",I hope to provide some theoretical guidance for the development of Chinese comedy.