Stand-up comedy is a form of personal improvisational speech or Talk Show speech that explores social issues and expresses personal opinions. Through actors' narration, performance, and interaction, Talk Show speech convey information to audiences and trigger humor. This article, based on Frame Theory which is proposed by American cognitive linguist Fillmore in "Frame Semantics”, focuses on individual speeches in stand-up comedy conferences to investigate the phenomenon of "jokes triggering" in comedic discourse. It explores the mechanisms behind the generation of these jokes from the perspective of Frame Switching, elucidating the mechanisms through homophonic, polysemic and ambiguous puns, aiming at contributing to the understanding of humor creation in Chinese Talk Show speech.

Chen Lu. The Mechanism of "Jokes Triggering" in Talk Show Speech: A Perspective of Cognitive Framing. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 16: 77-82. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061612.

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