Open AccessCohesive Device Analysis in Humor
Author(s) -
Wei Liu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of language teaching and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0684
pISSN - 1798-4769
DOI - 10.4304/jltr.1.1.90-93
Subject(s) - psychology
Humor is popular among us. While we are familiar with humor in our daily conversation, this paper studies the humor in cohesive devices. Humor produced by speakers can arouse the audience to response with special effect. Therefore in humor a lot of cohesive devices are employed