Humor, the quality that can make something funny and amusing, as one positive rhetorical effect which could be brought by ambiguity, is a very common phenomenon in daily life which is liked by almost everyone. So it is also worth a deep stud...

Nowadays, More and more Chinese are starting to watch foreign films and TV shows. The object of subtitles is to help people better understand the show without interruption of other dubbed sound. Friends, as one of the most popular and succes...

如同其他情景喜剧一般，《老友记》综合运用多种幽默手段。有反语、夸张、双关语等语言类的幽默；也有依靠背景、人物装扮、夸张的肢体语言等视觉类幽默；更有文化差异造成的文...

Although humor is a pervasive human phenomenon, observable in many aspects of life, in various human interactions and especially jokes and humorous styles, the true nature and function of humor challenges interpretation....

Although it may not be very comprehensive, and there can hardly be a standard for sitcom translation, this thesis is to render some insight into how subtitlers operate in the audiovisual medium and thus offer some help to Chinese subtitlers ...

The verbal humor in the famous American TV show Friends, to a certan degree, prevents some of the English learners from appreciating the TV show very well. This paper, based on Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implicature theory, exp...