Analysis of the Humor Language in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties- the CP-Violation and Humor EffectsAcknowledgements I shall first present my thanks to all the teachers in the Foreign Language School of University of Science and Technology, Liaoning, to whom I owe much of my knowledge in my study of English language and linguistics. Then I would like to thank Ms Guo Liping, who has given us lectures on linguistics. My heartfelt gratitude also goes to my tutor, Ms Zhang Jingwei, whose invaluable instructions, perceptive suggestions, great patience and constant encouragement have helped greatly to shape this thesis. ContentsAbstract (English)iAbstract (Chinese)iiiIntroduction1I. Grices cooperative principle2A. Maxim of Quantity3B. Maxim of Quality3C. Maxim of Relation3D. Maxim of Manner3II. Violation of the Cooperative Principle and the Humor Effects4A. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Quantity41.The Speaker contributes less information than is required52. The Speaker contribute more information than is required6B. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Quality61. The Speaker say something false on purpose62. Using rhetoric to express conversational implicatures8C. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Relation10D. Humor Created by the Violation of the Maxim of Manner111. To break the brief rule by verbose expressions122. To create ambiguity123. To break the ordinance rules13III. Tips for Creating Humors in Daily Communication14A. To Create Suspense14B. To Indulge in Verbiage15C. To Find the Ironical phenomenon in life15D. To Use rhetoric in conversation16Conclusion16Bibliography18 iAbstractAs the society develops increasingly fast in modern days, life competition and pressures for human being are more and more huge. Therefore, we pay much attention on relieving stress. Through observing, we find that humors have an excellent effect on relax. Therefore, it is of high values to analyze humors and understand the secrets of humors in daily life. Based on making clear how humors occur, we can conclude the common ways to create humors. From the perspective of pragmatics, Grices cooperative principle can well explain the humor mechanism. The cooperative principle (CP for short) is a principle of conversation proposed by Grice in 1975, stating, “Making your contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged”. There are four maxims in the CP, which people often follow during their daily conversation. However, people usually violate the CP to create humor effects, and therefore conversational implicatures will arise.Art is a mirror of life. Language in movies is the vivid embodiment of scenes of real life. Therefore, research on the movie language has important directive significance for our linguistic study. Many humors in movies are the overstating or jocosity of the real life. Its trenchant but mischievous attitude is a kind of bitter, sardonic laughter of the real man and thing.Recently, the American series films about Garfield are increasingly popular across the world. Many common phenomena in the real life are reflected in these films in the form of humors from the view of animals. The whole audience doubles up at jokes in these movies. The little cute cat Garfield wins instant fame over one night! Having such jolly laughs day-to-day will send us carefree and joyous and doubtfully improve our life quality. This thesis will take Garfield: a Tail of Two Kitties as an example and study all the humor language in it from the perspective of the CP-violation. The study aims to find how humor effects occur in this film, conclude what we can do is to create humors and to improve interpersonal communication skills. Through this thesis, we will learn about the relation between mechanisms of the humor and the violation of the Cooperative Principle. Some tips for creating humors will be given for reference at the end of the thesis.Key words: humor effects CP-Violation tips for creating humors摘要 随着现代社会日新月异的发展，人类的生存竞争日益激烈，生活压力越加沉重。因此，如何减压成为备受关注的话题。观察发现，幽默对于放松精神，缓解压力具有极好的作用。所以，分析幽默，领悟日常生活中幽默产生的秘密意义重大。基于此，我们可以总结出制造幽默的基本方法。从语用学的角度来讲，格莱斯的合作原则可以很好的解释幽默的产生机制。合作原则，简称CP，是由格莱斯于1975年提出的一个关于会话的原则。它指出：使你的话语，在其所发生的阶段，符合你参与的谈话所公认的目标或方向。合作原则包含四条基本准则，人们的日常会话往往是遵循这四条准则进行的。但是，人们又常常违反合作原则，制造幽默效果，从而传达会话的言外之意。俗话说，艺术是生活的一面镜子。电影中的语言很大程度上是现实生活场景的生动体现。因此，研究电影语言对于语言学的研究有着重要的指导意义。许多电影中的幽默只是对现实生活的夸大或戏谑而已。它以犀利而调皮的目光嘲笑现实中的人，现实中的事。近几年来，美国加菲猫系列电影风靡世界，受到越来越多的人们的欢迎。许多日常生活中的现象通过电影中动物的视角以幽默的形式反映了出来。这些笑话总是使所有观众都笑得直不起腰。这只可爱的加菲猫一夜成名了！每天像这样开怀大笑会让我们轻松快活，生活质量无疑得到了提高。本文以加菲猫2之双猫记为例，从打破合作原则的角度分析该电影中所有的幽默语言。笔者试图探究这部电影中的幽默是如何被创造出来的，并总结出我们在日常交际中应如何制造幽默效果，提高交际能