%0 Journal Article
%T An Analysis of Humor Discourse in <i>Friends</i> from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle
%A Ge Xu
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 460-470
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2022.124033
%X In this article, a descriptive qualitative study with the pragmatic approach of the cooperative principle by Grice (1975, 2002) was conducted to investigate fundamental characteristics that generate comedy in the sitcom <i>Friends</i> by analyzing the dialogue of the main characters in the comedy. The findings of the research revealed that comedy achieved effects of humor by violating the maxims of the cooperative principle, i.e. quality, quantity, relation, and manner. This study might serve as a reference for future research in pragmatics, especially in the line of research from the cooperative principle perspective.
%K The Cooperative Principle
%K The Quality Maxim
%K The Quantity Maxim
%K The Relation Maxim
%K The Manner Maxim
%K Humor
%K Sitcom
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=119038