Abstract
Humorous language, as the main form to express humor, is popular in our life. In humorous language, ambiguity and puns are important devices to create humor. They also play active roles in helping people to achieve positive communication effects, which make them have distinctive pragmatic characteristics. This paper analyzes the pragmatic characteristics of ambiguity and puns in English humor. First, it introduces the definition and classification of ambiguity and puns, then thoroughly studies the pragmatic features reflected in English humor such as the Deixis, the Presupposition, the Cooperative Principle and the Relevance theory.
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