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The Analysis of the Creation of Verbal Humor in The Parent Trap from the Perspective of the Violation of Cooperative Principle

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Qian Wu

School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

*Corresponding author: Qian Wu

Published: July 20,2023

Abstract

Research background: Grice, an American philosopher, put forward the theory of conversational implicature and cooperative principle in 1967, which has become an important part of pragmatics. Under the guidance of conversational implicature theory and cooperative principle, the research focus of pragmatics has shifted from static isolated words to dynamic multi-dimensional communication, such as movies, dramas, advertisements, sitcoms and so on. The Parent Trap is a family comedy film produced by the United States in 1998. It tells a touching story about a pair of twin sisters Annie and Hallie who have never met before meet at a camp and switched their places, finally they help their divorced parents get back together. Research methods: This thesis will select the dialogue content with humorous effect in the film, and then make use of textual analysis to analyze it with the Cooperative Principle to study how the humorous effect is produced. Conclusion: If someone violates the maxims of the cooperative principle, people in this dialogue may appear a little silly because of lack of information, feel overwhelmed because of redundant information, deliberately violate the rules to satirize others, may contradict what he or she has said before and appear ironic, may appear strange and funny because of deviation from the subject, may appear abrupt and awkward because of obscure language, may appear ironic because of ambiguity and lengthy expression, and appear funny because of confusion. In this way, the effect of humor is produced.

Keywords

Cooperative Principle, the creation of humor, The Parent Trap

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The Analysis of the Creation of Verbal Humor in The Parent Trap from the Perspective of the Violation of Cooperative Principle

How to cite this paper: Qian Wu. (2023) The Analysis of the Creation of Verbal Humor in The Parent Trap from the Perspective of the Violation of Cooperative Principle. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(6), 1207-1213.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.06.032