2011•Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis SunyatseniRequires access

Pragmatic Cooperative Principle and Its Effects on Verbal Humor

WANG Yan, 鄢家利

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Humor can be interpreted in many forms,and verbal humor is the most popular one.Grice's cooperative principle was proposed in 1967 and the violation of cooperative principles as well as its sub-maxims will cause humor.This paper will put the emphasis on CP's effects on humor and will give some analysis in detail.

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Key concepts: Grice, Cooperative principle, Sense of humor, Psychology, Humor research, Linguistics, Social psychology, Communication