2005•Unpublished venueRequires access
Relevance of Humor Utterances in Relevance Theory
Yan Wang
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Abstract
Humor utterance is a difficult point in the field of linguistic research. After questioning the research style of humor utterance form and logic, it is proposed that the greatest relevance of humor utterance is changing into the interesting relevance as cognitive, communicative and aesthetic state. The general significance of the interesting relevance is illustrated with explaining the feature of super communicative function and aesthetic interest.