Sitcom is the important carrier of the humor culture,but Chinese and American audiences usually cannot understand the humor in each other’s sitcoms in real life.The thesis firstly introduces the Chinese sitcom Ipartm...Sitcom is the important carrier of the humor culture,but Chinese and American audiences usually cannot understand the humor in each other’s sitcoms in real life.The thesis firstly introduces the Chinese sitcom Ipartment and the American sitcom Two Broke Girls.Then it makes a comparison of two ways of making humor in the two sitcoms,and picks some dialogues for analysis so as to discover the cultural differences and the reason.The research discovers that Chinese sitcoms mainly pick people’s shortcomings or naive thoughts as topics and rarely talk about sensitive topics like politics and death,whereas sitcoms in America cover various topics;Chinese sitcoms often create humor among intimate friends but Americans play jokes regardless of the status of people.These are mainly related to different histories of the two countries.展开更多
文摘Sitcom is the important carrier of the humor culture,but Chinese and American audiences usually cannot understand the humor in each other’s sitcoms in real life.The thesis firstly introduces the Chinese sitcom Ipartment and the American sitcom Two Broke Girls.Then it makes a comparison of two ways of making humor in the two sitcoms,and picks some dialogues for analysis so as to discover the cultural differences and the reason.The research discovers that Chinese sitcoms mainly pick people’s shortcomings or naive thoughts as topics and rarely talk about sensitive topics like politics and death,whereas sitcoms in America cover various topics;Chinese sitcoms often create humor among intimate friends but Americans play jokes regardless of the status of people.These are mainly related to different histories of the two countries.
