The verbal humor in the famous American TV show Friends, to a certan degree, prevents some of the English learners from appreciating the TV show very well. This paper, based on Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implicature theory, exp...

The author draws a conclusion that the translator should use some strategies like domestication, foreignization, ostension, and concentration with the communication model in his translation work, and make every effort to let the target langu...