A Study of Humor of The Actor’ s Lines in If You Are the One from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

In the thesis the author explores the humor of the actor’ s lines in If You Are the One from the perspective of cooperative princi ple and its four maxims in the context of pragmatics.Through analyzing the purposeful violation of the maxims in the environment of the cooperation principle,the author intends to probe into the ways the actors figure out the implicature of humorous utterances and manage to carry on the conversation and the reproduction of the amusing effect.