From the Perspective of Relevance Theory On the Farcical Mechanism of the Humorous Message

As a post-Gricean theory of pragmatics,since it was put forward,Relevance Theory has developed into a very influential theory in contemporary pragmatic research.Based on non-demonstrative inference,Relevance Theory attempts to provide a thorough explanation on how hearers choose a particular interpretation that is consistent with the speaker's intention and shows a strong explanation.Relevance Theory provides a new perspective on the analysis of humor understanding.From a relevance-theoretic point of view,humor understanding is a cognitive process of searching for relevance.The thesis attempts to analyses the mechanism of humorous message from the maximal relevance and optimal relevance and the ostensive-inferential process.