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TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims
Šmilauerová, Anna ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of Grice's Cooperative Principle: only those utterances were considered in which the characters violated one or more of the conversational maxims (quality, quantity, relation and manner). Phoebe was found to violate most often the maxim of relation, thus it is her being non-factual and non-conventional that constitutes her most entertaining quality. As she develops and grows more mature as a character, the frequency counts of this humor strategy evince a descending tendency. Chandler, on the other hand, is mostly being ironic, violating the maxim of quality. His character also gradually changes but his sense of humor remains the same - ironic throughout the show, as follows from the instances of almost fixed frequency....
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TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims
Šmilauerová, Anna ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of Grice's Cooperative Principle: only those utterances were considered in which the characters violated one or more of the conversational maxims (quality, quantity, relation and manner). Phoebe was found to violate most often the maxim of relation, thus it is her being non-factual and non-conventional that constitutes her most entertaining quality. As she develops and grows more mature as a character, the frequency counts of this humor strategy evince a descending tendency. Chandler, on the other hand, is mostly being ironic, violating the maxim of quality. His character also gradually changes but his sense of humor remains the same - ironic throughout the show, as follows from the instances of almost fixed frequency....
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The comparing of Grice's and Leech's conversational principles
Marhanová, Kateřina ; Pacovská, Jasňa (advisor) ; Mareš, Petr (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to explore Herbert Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle and Geoffrey Neil Leech's Politeness Principle and demonstrate on the basis of these findings the relationship between cooperative communication and courtesy communication by means of illustration of concrete texts. The theoretical part is a pivotal component of the thesis. It focuses in detail on the principles of the Cooperative Principle (maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relation and Manner), on the features of cooperative behaviour, on the questions of Conversational Implicature and its examples. Another chapter deals with interrelationship of the Cooperative and the Politeness Principles. The principles of the Politeness Principle (the Tact Maxim, the Generosity Maxim, the Aprobation Maxim, the Modesty Maxim, the Agreement Maxim and the Sympathy Maxim) and metalinguistic aspects of politeness are another component of the theoretical part. The practical part analyses a verbal behaviour of communication partners in the light of observance and violation of the Cooperative and the Politeness Principles by means of ten transcribed conversations. The final part of the thesis formulates which principles have prominence and which of them are shaded in these texts. KEYWORDS The Cooperative Principle Grice's maxims...
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