A Study on Verbal Humor in 2 Broke Girls under the Violation of Cooperative Principle
Verbal humor,as a ubiquitous language phenomenon,plays a significant role in human social communication.This paper takes the conversational examples in the classic sitcom 2 Broke Girls as materials and explores how it creates the effect of verbal humor by violating Grice's cooperative principle from the perspective of pragmatics,so as to enable readers to deeply understand the essence of sit-coms and the quintessence of western culture.It is hoped that it can be enlighen for people to better use the cooperative principle in daily life and realize the purpose of social communication smoothly.