“纯粹的嬉闹和严肃性”是菲利普.罗斯小说的重要特点。他善于运用幽默的语言去揭示和讽刺当代美国社会弊病。本文以《人性污秽》语言中的语义模糊,语义矛盾和语言夸张为出发点来分析其言语幽默,并深入探讨罗斯对美国社会种族阶级歧视和道德伪善的批判。 “Pure playfulness and seriousness” is an important feature of Phillip Rose’s novels. He is good at using humorous language to reveal and satirize contemporary American social ills. This article analyzes the verbal humor from the perspective of semantic ambiguity, semantic contradiction and language exaggeration in “human contamination” language, and probes into Rose ’s criticism of discrimination and moral hypocrisy in American society.