1. 研究目的与意义
Practical significance:
A person without a sense of humor is supposed to be bored under high pressure. In our daily conversation, some people seem to have a talent to create humor while some are not. People from different religious and cultural background, have a different understanding of humor, so that sometimes a Chinese may not fully understand an American#8217;s humor. However, almost everyone who is watching comedy bursts out laughing. That#8217;s to say, there may be specific elements which helps humor cross over religious or cultural difference. What evokes my interest is whether there is a universal and efficient way which helps those less humor-talented people be humorous. If I prove that flouting CP contributes to producing humor, it helps in terms of being humorous and establishing a sound social relationship.
Theoretical significance:
2. 研究内容和预期目标
This study is focused on how humor is produced by violating CP, the effects of CP violation on humor, and comparing the effects from four maxims. To begin with, I will review some relevant theories of humor which includes Raskin#8217;s SSTH, Attardo and Raskin#8217;s GTVH, Incongruity Theory and Post-Gricean Pragmatic. Then I approach the thesis by explaining cooperative principle and its traditional usage and effect in pragmatics. Since there are four maxims, I will analyze one by one by means of comparative and exemplification to figure out how each of them affects the producing of humor. After comparing, I will reason out why violating cooperative principle is an efficient way of producing humor. The key problem that I attempt to solve is whether violating CP is an efficient way of producing humor.
1. Exploration of humor
1.1 What#8217;s humor?
3. 国内外研究现状
The earliest scholars who investigated humor are ancient Greek philosophers (Plato and Aristotle). (张立新2012:15) They are in favor of the Superiority Theory. After that, according to this theory, an English philosopher Thomas Hobbes put forward a theory of Mockery which suggests that because of social status and physical limitation, the superior enjoys achieving a sense of satisfaction by attacking, contempting and mocking the inferior. (Holmes 2006:28) The Theory of Mockery can be used to explain any forms of humor, and I will mention it in my thesis that violating CP is more efficient than forming a sense of superiority to produce amusement.
In order to overcome the shortcomings of The Superiority Theory, Lord Shaftesburry put forward Relief Theory in one of his books-The freedom of Wit and Humor. (Ritchie 2005:280) It is developed by Freud who distinct three conditions of humor including joking, the comic and humor, which separately produced three power including suppressive energy, thinking energy and emotional energy.(Freud 2002:52)
Another theory of humor is Incongruity Theory which has two models referring to incongruity between condition set-up and condition punch line. One is The Forced Reinterpretation Model which is favored by Heller, Minsky and Paulos. (Ritchie, 2004:58) The other is The Two-Stage Model which is put forward by Suls. (Suls 1972:92)
4. 计划与进度安排
2022.10.26~2022.10.30: receiving the notice that informs me of setting my direction of witting-Linguistics.
2022.11.1~2022.11.23: finding and defining my thesis, drafting a preliminary bibliography, according to the bibliography the title is decided-Investigating Humor from Cooperative Principle, and outlining the thesis.
2022. 12.1~2022.1.1: preparing the thesis proposal, writing literature reviews, thinking about the significance of this thesis, and making a list of work plan.
2022.1.19~2022.3.19: writing first draft which includes adopting diachronic research and literature analysis in order to review the superiorities and shortcomings of various theories of humor, and analyzing how humor is produced by violating CP, the effects of CP violation on humor, and comparing the effects from four maxims. The research method of this paper includes comparative, analysis, exemplification and so on.
2022.4.21~2022.5.6: revising the first draft again and again, at least for three times, and handing in weekly reports.
2022.5.7~2022.5.10: finalizing the draft and waiting for result
2022.5.13~2022.6.12: preparing defending my thesis
序号 | 阶段名称 | 主要工作（学生/指导教师/其他） | 开始时间 | 截止时间 |
1 | 部署阶段 | 教务处、学院、辅导员、本导开展毕业论文（设计）动员 | 2022.10.26 | 2022.10.31 |
2 | 选题阶段 | 学生:确定选题并提交 | 2022.11.1 | 2022.11.23 |
指导教师：确认选题 | 2022.11.24 | 2022.11.30 | ||
3 | 开题阶段 | 学生：撰写、提交、修改开题报告 | 2022.12.1 | 2022.12.31 |
指导教师：审核开题报告 | 2022.1.1 | 2022.1.18 | ||
4 | 初稿阶段 | 学生：撰写、提交论文初稿 | 2022.1.19 | 2022.3.19 |
指导教师：审阅初稿、中期检查 | 2022.3.20 | 2022.4.20 | ||
5 | 论文修改阶段 | 学生：反复修改提交论文并提交修改稿、三稿，外文文献翻译稿，指导周记6次 | 2022.4.21 | 2022.5.6 |
指导教师：审阅论文修改稿、审阅外文文献翻译稿 | ||||
6 | 定稿阶段 | 学生：提交论文定稿版 | 2022.5.7 | 2022.5.10 |
指导教师：审定并给出指导成绩 | 2022.5.11 | 2022.5.16 | ||
7 | 答辩分组、评阅阶段 | 院系成立答辩小组、分配评阅人、给出评阅成绩 | 2022.5.17 | 2022.5.27 |
8 | 答辩阶段 | 完成现场答辩及成绩录入，成绩发布 | 2022.5.28 | 2022.6.10 |
9 | 二次答辩 | 不合格论文学生和推荐校优秀毕业论文（设计）学生二次答辩 | 2022.6.11 | 2022.6．16 |
10 | 论文推优 | 学院上报校级优秀毕业论文 | 2022.6.17 | 2022.6.24 |
11 | 工作总结 | 毕业论文工作进行总结、抽检 | 2022.6.25 | 2022.6.30 |
5. 参考文献
Reference
1. Attardo, S. Humorous Texts: A Semantic and pragmatic Analysis [M]. Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
2. Attardo, S. Introduction: the pragmatics of humor [J]. Journal of pragmatics, 2003, 8(35): 1287-1294.
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