| The humor customs are different owing to different cultures of languages. Basing on the mainstream cultures, the thesis selected humorous examples in English and Chinese, analyzed the similarities and differences of English humor and Chinese humor from the perspective of cultural context, and then explore the causes rooted in cultures. Culture has a great influence on the language, thus, understanding of the culture is a necessity to succeed in cross-cultural communication.The thesis aims to help in comprehension of relationships, linguistic characteristics and cultural connotations of the humors through systematic contrast of English humor with Chinese humor. The thesis is intended to be helpful in elimination of comprehensive obstacles of humor, enhancement of cultural consciousness, maintaining humorous sense of propriety. The author hopes the thesis can enrich the research on English humor and Chinese humor in cultural context. |
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