Humour and Grice's Cooperative Principle in "The Big Bang Theory" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humour and Grice's Cooperative Principle in "The Big Bang Theory" write by Julia Rabbe. This book was released on 2018-01-08. Humour and Grice's Cooperative Principle in "The Big Bang Theory" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Anglistik), Veranstaltung: Pragmatics: Language in Use, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper focuses on the pragmatic account of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" with Grice and the cooperative principle as its theoretical background. It is based on the assumption that verbal humour violates Grice ́s cooperative principle. The aim is to explain how humour is generated and perceived in certain contexts. A data analysis is employed to provide an answer to the question if humour is created by disrespecting Grice’s maxims of cooperation. It is investigated how humour is created by the violation of the maxims and which effect this has.
Creation of Humor in 'The Big Bang Theory'. An Analysis based on Grice's Maxims
Creation of Humor in 'The Big Bang Theory'. An Analysis based on Grice's Maxims - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation of Humor in 'The Big Bang Theory'. An Analysis based on Grice's Maxims write by Sören Klohe. This book was released on 2012-06-27. Creation of Humor in 'The Big Bang Theory'. An Analysis based on Grice's Maxims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: I Introduction The study of humor dates back to the ancient times when Plato and Aristotle formulated first theories as to why people laugh (Attardo 1994:18-19). In the course of centuries humor has become a complex field of study with numerous researches that have been conducted in various disciplines (Schnurr 2010: 308-309). Hence, humor has also been given attention in the field of linguistics, especially in its branches semiotics, semantics and pragmatics. Due to the extensive research by linguists like Attardo (1994), Raskin (1985) or Norrick (1993), verbal humor has become a thoroughly investigated field these days. While Raskin ́s (1985) and Attordo ́s (1994) research focuses on humor theories as well as analyzing the nature of jokes from a linguistic point of view, Norrick investigates the function of humor in the context of familiar conversations (Attardo 136- 137 , 145). However, it was not until recently that linguists have engaged with the analysis of humor in sitcoms; therefore comparatively few studies have been published in this area yet (Kalliomäki 2005: 4). This pragmatic approach to humor aims at investigating if humorous situations in the American sitcom ‘The Big Bang Theory’ relate to the violation of the maxims of the cooperative principle. Moreover, this study analyzes which humor strategies are produced by the violation of the Gricean cooperative maxims to elicit the audience ́s laughter. The relevant research questions are: 1) Do humorous situations relate to the violation of the maxims of the Grice ́s cooperative principle? 2) If 1) is the case, what are the characteristics of the humor that is produced through the violation of a maxim? (i.e. Which maxim is violated? Which humor strategies are employed by whom and in which context?) 3) Does a character create humor by intention or unintentionally? The qualitative analysis in this paper is supposed to contribute to a better pragmatic understanding of the humor of the sitcom ‘The Big Bang Theory’. The data used in this study are obtained from the collection of scripts from season 1 and the DVD - recording. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ has become one of the most popular sitcoms in the US. It deals with four nerdy characters, the two roommates and physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter as well as their friends, astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali and the Jewish aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz.
A Study of Non-observance of Grice's Cooperative Principle Found in Humor Discourse
A Study of Non-observance of Grice's Cooperative Principle Found in Humor Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of Non-observance of Grice's Cooperative Principle Found in Humor Discourse write by Latan Chaipreukkul. This book was released on 2013. A Study of Non-observance of Grice's Cooperative Principle Found in Humor Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts
The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts write by Pietro Luigi Iaia. This book was released on 2015-09-04. The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners who focus on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts. It defines translation as a communicative and interpretative process, with translators seen as cross-cultural mediators who make the denotative-semantic and connotative-pragmatic dimensions of source scripts accessible to target receivers, prompting equivalent perlocutionary effects, while still respecting the original illocutionary force. While existing research on audiovisual translation generally adopts a product-based perspective, examining the lexico-semantic and syntactic features of source and target versions, this book proposes an “Interactive Model”, in order to explore what happens in the translators’ minds, as well as the influence of the interaction between the linguistic and extralinguistic dimensions in the construction and interpretation of audiovisual texts. The application of this Model to the analysis of a corpus of humorous films, TV series and video games foregrounds the integration between the analysis of the source-text features and the knowledge of the target linguacultural backgrounds in the creation of pragmalingustic equivalent scripts. At the same time, this book also provides valuable insights into the audience’s reception of these translations, by submitting close-ended and open-ended questionnaires to subjects representing empirical receivers, thus helping to evaluate the degree of linguistic and functional equivalence of target versions.
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics write by Keith Allan. This book was released on 2012-01-12. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.
