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A Study on Punch Lines in TV Comedies of High and Low Context Culture
: In the last two decades, there have been quite a many of successful cases of American TV comedies which have made great hits in China. Apart from the development of internet technology and its popularity as well as convenience among common people, verbal language in TV comedies contributes significantly for the success of intercultural communication. Therefore, this paper is committed to analyzing the differences between punch lines in two different cultures, namely, high-context culture and low-context culture. In the cast light of Hall’s context theory, and from the aspect of verbal language in intercultural communication, a Chinese TV comedy “I Love My Family”and an American TV comedy “the Marvelous Maisel” are choose as examples for comparison.