Though with different times and backgrounds,these three masterpieces-"The Egg","The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"and"Shiloh"all humorously characterize the same type protagonist-the"little man".Penetrating the humorous...
Animal Farm,which is written by the British writer George Orwell,is famous for its incisive satiric writing style and has been considered as an actual political allegory.This paper intends to re-read it from a differe...
In this paper,verbal humor is interpretated from the appreciator's perspective of cognitive linguistics,precisely,the combination of Relevance Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory,which is a relatively new model,in h...