《红楼梦》中人物对话里的笑话很多,它对刻画人物性格、揭示人物内心世界方面起着十分重要的作用。这些笑话使小说在悲剧的氛围中出现了喜剧特征,从而更好地烘托了小说的悲剧特点。这就是笑话的语用功能,而这些语用功能的实现必须凭借着一定的途径,因此,研究《红楼梦》中的笑话,对深入理解作品和研究这部巨著的思想内涵和表现手法都很有意义。 There are many jokes in the dialogues of characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, which play an important role in depicting the character and revealing the inner world of a character. These jokes make the novel comedy characteristics in the tragedy atmosphere, so as to better contrast the tragedy features of the novel. This is the pragmatic function of jokes, and the realization of these pragmatic functions must rely on a certain way, therefore, the study of jokes in the “Dream of Red Mansions” is very important for understanding the work and studying the ideological content and expression of this masterpiece significance.