Humour and Grice's Cooperative Principle in "The Big Bang...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik, Note: 1, 3, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Anglistik), Veranstaltung: Pragmatics: Language in Use, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper focuses on the pragmatic account of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" with Grice and the cooperative principle as its theoretical background. It is based on the assumption that verbal humour violates Grice ...