Humor,as an essential merit of human communication,makes our life more interesting.Based on Incongruity Theory in psychology,humor is generated by incongruity between what we expect to happen and what actually happene...
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...
This paper attempts to employ relevance theory to analyze the cognition of humor, in the hope that a solution may be found for the humor breakdown arising in cross-cultural communication. The paper is based on the bel...