The non-observance of Grice’s Maxims in the creation of humour in a Chinese sitcom / Zhao Xue

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The non-observance of Grice’s Maxims in the creation of humour in a Chinese sitcom / Zhao Xue

Sitcoms provide entertainment, one of which is through humour. This study focuses on how humour was created in a few episodes of a selected Chinese sitcom - Home with Kids (Season 4). Using Grice’s (1975) non-observance of Cooperative Principles – flouting, violating, infringing, opting out, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zhao, Xue
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2017
Subjects:	P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:	http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/7763/ http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/7763/1/All.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/7763/9/zhao.x

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