幽默是文学的一种表现形式,又是人类文化成果精华之一。在西方国家,有没有幽默感常常被视为文化修养高低的表现。一般来讲,幽默的言语交际常用夸张、双关、曲解等修辞手段来善意地揭露生活中的种种乖谬和不尽人义之处,因而容易背离格赖斯的会话合作原则。本文以语用学理论为基础,结合日常生活中西方幽默故事,探讨幽默言语交际中会话合作原则及其次准则的背离,希望能给人们日常的言语交际提供一些 Humor is a manifestation of literature and one of the essences of human cultural achievements. In Western countries, there is often no sense of humor as a manifestation of cultural accomplishment. Generally speaking, humorous verbal communication is often exaggerated, punctuated, misinterpreted and other rhetorical devices to expose all kinds of absurdities and notions of human life in good faith, so it is easy to deviate from Grice’s principle of conversational cooperation. Based on the theory of pragmatics and combined with the humorous stories of the West in daily life, this article explores the departure from the principle of dialogue cooperation and the second criterion in humorous verbal communication, hoping to provide people with some daily verbal communication