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A Study on the Verbal Humor in Sitcom Friends from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

Authors
Mengdi Dai1, *
1Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
*Corresponding author. Email: med00089@students.stir.ac.uk
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Mengdi Dai
Available Online 13 February 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_159How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Verbal humor; Cooperative Principle; Friends
Abstract

Humor is an important spice in life and has long been the subject of research in many academic fields, including linguistics. The Cooperative Principle is a set of theories based on four maxims, which are the leading principles for generating a complete conversation between speakers. Violation of any of these four maxims results in the formation of conversational meanings, and thus linguistic humor. This article briefly introduces the main elements of the Cooperative Principle in pragmatics and its limitation and uses the script of the American TV sitcom Friends as an example. The author introduces the definition of sitcoms and a brief introduction to Friends. The article analyzes in detail the process of humor produced by the actors in the play by violating the cooperative principle, to improve readers’ understanding of the internal laws of English language humor. The process of humor produced by actors who violate the cooperative principle is analyzed in detail. The author found through the analysis that the principle of cooperation can be widely applied to discourse analysis, such as the element of humor.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_159
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_159How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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