查看更多>>摘要: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 happened. Accordingly, this thesis focuses on the interpersonal function in systemic functional grammar and explores the humorous dialogues in a famous American sitcom the Big Bang Theory in terms of the functional structure and components. This thesis makes an attempt to demonstrate the applicability of taking interpersonal function theories into humor analysis.
查看更多>>摘要:English translation of political terms in government's reports is important to publicity of China's policies and ideology. Taking translation of China's 19th National Congress Report as an example, the author adopts an approach of data analysis to observe English translation of political terms from the perspective of Memetics Theory. The author intends to design a model of predicting a political term's possibility of becoming a strong meme after translation. The model is crude and needs improvement and perfection in further study.