puns-in-advertisement-from-the-perspective-of-cooperative-principle--英语专业本科毕业论文.doc

目录
中文摘要..........................................................................................................................I
Abstract........................................................................................................................II
1. 引言………………………………………………………………………………..1
2. 合作原则...................................................................................................................3
2.1合作原则的内涵……………………………..………………………………….3
2.2合作原则的准则………………………………………………………………..3
2.2.1数量准则………………………………………………………………….3
2.2.2质量准则………………………………………………………………….3
2.2.3关系准则………………………………………………………………….3
2.2.4方式准则………………………………………………………………….3
2.3合作原则准则的违反…………………………………………………………..3
2.3.1违反数量准则…………………………………………………………….4
2.3.2违反质量准则…………………………………………………………….4
2.3.3违反关系准则…………………………………………………………...4
2.3.4违反方式准则…………………………………………………………...4
2.4 会话含义……………………………………………………………………...5
3. 广告双关语 ……………………………………………………………………...6
3.1 双关语的含义………………………………………………………………...6
3.2 双关语的特点………………………………………………………………...6
3.2.1 歧义……………………………………………………………………..7
3.2.2双重语境………………………………………………………………...7
3.3广告双关语的分类………………………………………………………........8
3.3.1一词多义双关…………………………………………………………….8
3.3.2同音双关………………………………………………………………….9
3.3.3仿拟双关………………………………………………………………….9
3.3.4语法双关………………………………………………………………….9
4．合作原则与广告双关语.…………………………………………………….........11
4.1广告双关语违反合作原则的准则…………………………………………….11
4.1.1 广告双关语违反数量准则…………………………………………........11
4.1.2 广告双关语违反质量准则…………………………………………........12
4.1.3 广告双关语违反关系准则………………………………………………12
4.1.4 广告双关语违反方式准则…………………………………………........13
4.2广告双关语具有会话含义………………………………………………........14
4.2.1 具有一种会话含义的广告双关语…………………………………........14
4.2.2 具有多种会话含义的广告双关语…………………………………........15
5. 结论.........................................................................................................................18
6. 致谢 .......................................................................................................................20
7. 参考文献 ...............................................................................................................21
CONTENTS
摘要.................................................................................................................................I
Abstract........................................................................................................................II
1. Introduction........................................................................……............................1
2. Cooperative Principle..............................................................................................3
2.1The Definition of Cooperative Principle………………………………………...3
2.2The Maxims of Cooperative Principle…………………………………………..3
2.2.1Quantity……………………………………………………………………3
2.2.2Quality……………………………………………………………………..3
2.2.3Relation……………………………………………………………………3
2.2.4Manner…………………………………………………………………….3
2.3Violation of the Maxims ………………………………………………………...4
2.3.1Violation of the Maxim of Quantity……………………………………….4
2.3.2 Violation of the Maxim of Quality………………………………………4
2.3.3 Violation of the Maxim of Relation……………………………………..4
2.3.4 Violation of the Maxim of Manner………………………………………4
2.4Conversational Implicature…………………………………………………….5
3. Puns in Advertisement …………………………………………………………..6
3.1 Definition of pun………………………………………………………………6
3.2 Characteristics of Pun………………………………………………………….6
3.2.1 Ambiguity………………………………………………………………..7
3.2.2The Double Context……………………………………………………...7
3.3Types of Puns in Advertisement………………………………………………..8
3.3.1Puns on Polysemy……………………………………………………........8
3.3.2Puns on Homophones……………………………………………………...9
3.3.3Puns on parody…………………………………………………………….9
3.3.4Puns on Grammar………………………………………………………….9
4. Cooperative Principle and puns in advertisement……………………………..11
4.1Puns in advertisement that violate the maxims of Cooperative Principle……….11
4.1.1Puns that violate the maxim of quantity…………………………………….11
4.1.2Puns that violate the maxim of quality……………………………………...12
4.1.3Puns that violate the maxim of relation……………………………………..12
4.1.4Puns that violate the maxim of manner……………………………………..13
4.2Puns in advertisement with conversational implicature…………………………..14
4.2.1Puns with one conversational implicature……………………………………14
4.2.2Puns with more conversational implicature………………………………….15
5. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………18
6. Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………..20
7. Bibliography……………………………………………………………………21

摘要

双关语能用简洁的方式表达幽默与智慧，因而备受广告商的青睐。广告商运用双关语来增强广告语言的号召力，从而影响消费者的购买意愿。但是双关语是怎样被运用到广告中来促进语言交流进而最终达到广告商的预期目的，又是怎样影响广告商传达商品信息和消费者对广告的理解呢？
本文旨在从合作原则的角度分析广告中的双关语，主要从三个部分进行论述。第一部分介绍合作原则的相关理论，包括合作原则的内涵，合作原则的准则,以及合作原则准则的违反和由此而产生的会话含义。第二部分介绍广告中的双关语，包括双关语的定义，双关语的特点以及广告中双关语的类型和双关语在广告中的功能。第三部分结合合作原则的理论分析广告中的双关语，主要从两个层面进行展开。第一个层面是广告中的双关语违反了合作原则的准则，另外一个层面是广告中的双关语产生了一定的会话含义。在此基础上，论文引用了大量的实例来研究双关语的特点，分类以及如何违反了合作原则的准则和产生了怎样的会话含义。
这是研究广告语言的一个新的视角，同时也会增强对合作原则的理解.此外研究广告中的双关语也具有重要的现实意义，它为广告商更加巧妙地运用双关语提供了一定的原则同时也有利于观众更好地理解广告中的双关语并品味其中的魅力所在。
关键词：广告 双关语 合作原则

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Abstract
Pun, a concise way to express humor and wit, is particularly favored by advertisers to enhance the appeal of language and thus influence the audiences’ buying decision. But how it is adopted in advertising to facilitate the linguistic communication and ultimately serve to reach the intended purposes，and cognitively cast influences upon the advertiser’s expression and the audience’s interpretation of the utterances in discourse?
This paper is dedicated to analyze puns in advertisement from the perspective of Cooperative Principle and the analysis can be divided into three parts. Part One introduces the relevant theory of Cooperative Principle, including the definition of Cooperative Principle, the maxim of Cooperative Principle, violations of the maxims and the conversational implicature arising therefrom. Part Two introduces the relevant knowledge of puns, including the definition of puns, the characteristics of puns, the classification of puns in advertisement. Part Three tries to study puns from the perspective of Cooperative Principle and it is analyzed under two headlines. One is the puns that violate the maxims of Cooperative Principle and the other one is puns with one or more conversational implicature. Besides, the present paper employs many examples to study the characteristics of puns, the classification of puns and how they violate the maxims of Cooperative Principle and what conversational implicature they have.
This is a new perspective to rich advertising language study and will deepen the pragmatic study. Also the study of punning in advertising may be of practical importance in that it is likely to provide guidelines for advertisers on how to employ advertising puns more skillfully．It leads us to achieve a better understanding of puns in advertising and thus enjoy the charming of them.
Key words: Advertisement Puns Cooperative Principle

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Puns in Advertisement from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle
1. Introduction
It is universally acknowledged that the main and ultimate purpose of an advertisement is to persuade the audience to buy the product advertised．The advertiser put a lot of efforts in attracting the attention of the audience. And in the mean time, there is a tremendous amount of research in advertising language，conducted by people in both the field of advertising and that of linguistics．However, punning does not seem to receive enough attention it deserves．
Advertising puns are chosen as the object that need for more investigation is based on the following reasons：
Firstly, the studies of this field have never been more complete. Why pun is used and how it is adopted in advertising to facilitate the linguistic communication and ultimately serve to reach the intended purpose，and cognitively have influences upon the advertiser’s expression and the audience’s interpretation of the utterances is still a wonder that is worth making an attempt to have a thorough research．
Secondly, as for the analysis of puns in advertisement, lots of scholars prefer the Relevance Theory and few of them try to study it from the perspective of Cooperative Principle, which is a new way to rich advertising language study. Some scholars are truly interested in the analysis of puns in advertisement from the perspective of Cooperative Principle, but the studies of this field have never been more complete and are worth spending energy and time studying it. And there are some scholars try to analyze puns in advertisement from the perspective of Pragmatics, in which Relevance Theory and Cooperative Principle are both referred, which is more comprehensive but not that systematic and intensive.
Thirdly, the study of punning in advertising may be of practical importance in that it is likely to provide guidelines for advertisers on how to employ advertising puns more skillfully．It leads us to achieve a better understanding of puns in advertising and thus enjoy the charming of them.
There are four parts in this paper. Part One introduces the relevant theory of Cooperative Principle; Part Two introduces puns in advertisement; Part Three tries to analyze puns in advertisement from the perspective of Cooperative Principle. Part Four is the conclusion.

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2. Cooperative Principle
2.1 The Definition of Cooperative Principle
Quite often a speaker can mean much more than what is said and the hearer can understand the speaker’s meaning. Oxford philosopher H.P. Grice (1975:45) believes that there must be some mechanisms governing the production and comprehension of these utterances. He argues that there is a set of assumptions guiding the conduct of conversation. In other words, we seem to follow some principle like the following: “Make your conversational 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”. This is what he calls the Cooperative Principle.
2.2 Maxims of Cooperative Principle
Hu Zhuanglin(1987, 191): To specify the Cooperative Principle further, Grice introduced four categories of maxims as follows:
2.2.1 Quantity
Make your contribution as informative as is required; don’t make your contribution more informative than is required.
2.2.2 Quality
Try to make your contribution one that is true: Don’t say what you believe to be false; don’t say that for which you lake adequate evidence.
2.2.3 Relation
Be relevant
2.2.4 Manner
Be perspicuous: Avoid obscurity of expression; avoid ambiguity; be brief; be orderly.
2.3 Violation of the Maxims of Cooperative Principle
The use of terms “principle” and “maxim” doesn’t mean that everybody will follow the Cooperative Principle and its maxims all the time. People do violate the maxims and tell lies, which include the violation of the maxim of quantity, the violation of the maxim of quality, the violation of the maxim of relation and the violation of the maxim of manner. The following provides different circumstances of the violation of Cooperative Principle and its maxims. (Hu Zhuanglin 1987)
2.3.1 Violation of the Maxim of Quantity
An example in which the maxim of quantity is violated will be:
A: Where is X?
B: He’s gone to the library. He said so when he left.
In a sense, the first part of B’s answer is enough for A’s question. But by adding the second part, the speaker may implicate that he is not sure whether X has gone to the library.
And tautologies like Boys are boys and War is war are extreme examples in which the first Quantity Maxim is violated. At the superficial level, they are totally uninformative. At a deeper level, they are informative. They may convey implicatures like “Boys are naughty and mischievous by nature”, “It’s no use lamenting the tragedies of war. Terrible things always happen in it. That is its nature.”
2.3.2 Violation of the Maxim of Quality
The examples Grice provides for the violation of the Quality maxim are all traditional figures of speech like: He is made of iron.
That is at the level of what is said, they are false statements. No natural human being is made of iron, unless he is a robot. So this sentence will not be taken literally. Instead we will interpret it as a metaphor, meaning this man has a character like iron.
2.3.3 Violation of the Maxim of Relation
As for the maxim of Relation, Grice thinks “Examples in which an implicature is achieved by real, as distinct from apparent, violation of the maxim of Relation are perhaps rare, but the following seems to be a good candidate.”
A: How do you like my painting?
B: I’m afraid I don’t have an eye for beauty.
B has apparently refused to say something relevant to A’s question. He or she thereby implicates that he or she doesn’t like it at all.
2.3.4 Violation of the Maxim of Manner
The following may be seen as a case in which B is being deliberately obscure, so that the children will not be able to understand what they are talking about.
A: Let’s get the kids something.
B: Okay, but I veto I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M-S.
When illustrating the violation of the ambiguity avoidance maxim, we can use this example:
A: Where is your mother?
B; She is either in her room or at the market.
And this sentence can be an example of the violation of brief.
A: Miss X sang “Home sweet home”.
B: Miss X produced a series of sounds that corresponded closely which the score of “Home sweet home”.
If a reviewer has chosen B rather than A, then the prolixity implicates that Miss
X’s performance is so poor that the word “sing” can’t be applied.
Grice didn’t give any example of disorder, which is understandable in that a disordered utterance will not convey anything but the fact that the speaker is mentally unsound.
2.4 Conversational Implicature
Violations of the maxims of Cooperative Principle have given rise to the conversational implicature. According to Grice (1975:97), it refers to the extra meaning not contained in the utterance, but understandable to the listener only when he shares the speaker’s knowledge or he knows why and how he violates intentionally one of the four maxims of cooperative principle.

3. Puns in Advertisement
3.1 Definition of pun
The term “pun” originates in the Latin word “paranomazein”, meaning “calling by a different name”. And it is also called “paronomasia”. Looking at the same issue from different perspectives, we may often come up with different definitions of the thing under discussion. And, not surprisingly, pun can be thus defined in many ways.
There is such a humorous explanation about pun: “punning – to torture one poor word ten thousand ways (John Dryden)”.
In Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, pun is defined as “An amusing use of a word or phrase that has two meanings, or words with the same sound b