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The differences between Chinese and English humor中英幽默对比Student：Bao JiamingCourse：English for Academic CommunicationInstructor：Ms.Sun LipingDate：October，2015Course Paper Grade 2014Introduction This article mainly analyzes the differences of Chinese and English humor from an angle of cultural gap. There are four parts in this paper. In the first part, the article gives a general introduction to humor. And then the author presents what make the differences between Chinese and English humor from historical background, religious belief, living environment and the mode of thinking. In this part, many vivid examples will be given. In the third part, the transformation model of humor will be showed to readers. Last part comes to a conclusion in which will show that not only should we know the humor in English, but increase our knowledge about cultural connotation, which can help us to implement the intercultural communication successfully. The article will expound and prove it combining with some examples of humor presentationPart One Theoretical background 1.1Definitions of humorThe English word humor derived from the Latin word humor. Originally, it is a medical term, meaning liquid which controls human health and emotion. Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke /wiki/Laughterlaughter and provide /wiki/Amusementamusement. ( Ziv 1988)1.2 The characteristics of humorPeople of all ages and cultures respond to humor. Most people are able to experience humor—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny—and thus are considered to have a?sense of humor. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humor would likely find the behavior induced by humor to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal?/wiki/Taste_(aesthetics)taste, the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables, including?/wiki/Geographical_locationgeographical location,?/wiki/Cultureculture,?/wiki/Maturity_(psych