Contrastive Studies of Pun in Figures of Speech
Contrastive Studies of Pun in Figures of Speech.Pun as a figure of speech uses a word or phrase to get two meanings:literal meaning and connotation meaning so as to achieve humorous or sarcastic sense.There are many similarities between English and Chinese but in many ways they are different,while people always subconsciously cousider them as equal and use them in any occasions.To solve these problems,this thesis solves them through the contrastive study of English and Chinese rhetorical figure-pun.By analyzing and comparing English and Chinese puns in some typical sentences nd dialogues through semantic,pragmatic,cultural perspectives,partial tone,forms,meaninps and so on.This thesis show that pun between English and Chinese exists lots of similarities and differences from different perspectives.Through all the endeavors done in this thesis,a better understanding of both languages and cultures,and smoother translation would be obtained.Whats more,people can use puns in English and Chinese languages properly so as to eliminate unnecessary misunderstundings when communicating with others.
pun contrastive study relevance theory cooperative principle differences and similarities
Qingchen Shao Zhenzhen Wang Zhijie Hao
Department of Foreign Language and Art Design, Cangzhou Vocational College of Technology, Cangzhou 0 College of Foreign Languages Yanshan University Qin Huangdao 066004, China Department of Information Engineering, Cangzhou Vocational College of Technology Cangzhou 061001, Ch
国际会议
太原
英文
870-874
2012-12-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）