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ting the definition of humor. Humor, the English word, came from the Latin word which means “fluid” or “liquid” (Attardo, 1994:6). It means the fluids of the  human  body,  which  involves  four  fluids,  namely,  blood,  phlegm,  choler  and melancholy. In ancient times, it was generally believed that the four fluids determined people?s physical appearance, character and temperament. In  other words, the physical and mental states of people can be easily affected by the balance condition of four fluids (Xiang,  2008:56/37).  Afterwards,  humor  has  got  other  means  which  meant  an  odd, uncommon  and  eccentric  character  that  was  laughed  at,  and  made  others  laugh  (Hu, 1987:2-3). However, humor gradually is separated from its original meaning. In China, Lin Yutang was the first person translated humor into Chinese “you mo” in the 1920s and from then  on  it  was  widely recognized by Chinese  scholars and  ordinary people (Lin, 1994).  
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2.2 Review of Study on Verbal Humor  
The  most  traditional  studies  undoubtedly  made  great  contributions  to  the forthcoming researches on humor. Scholars are appealed to study humor from different viewpoints  like  psychology,  philosophy,  sociology,  etc.  Humor  is  prevalent  in  human daily life, and is conveyed by way of spoken or written language in most cases. Thus verbal humor plays a dominate role in the research of humor and the research has never stopped.  At  the  same  time,  many  linguists  devoted  themselves  to  the  study  of  verbal humor. However, until the end of 1970s, linguistic studies on humor took up a significant position in numerous researches on verbal humor (Attardo, 1997: 395). This section will provide  the  previous  studies  on  verbal  humor  from  linguistic  aspect  both  abroad  and domestic.   
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Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework ............. 17 
3.1 Relevance Theory .......... 17 
3.1.1 Ostensive-Inferential Communication ....... 18 
3.1.2 Dynamic Context and Contextual Effects ........... 19 
3.1.3 Two Principles of Relevance ............ 21 
3.1.4 Evaluations of Relevance Theory .... 22 
3.2 Conceptual Blending Theory ............ 23
.3 Relevance-Blending Model ..... 28 
3.4 Summary .... 33
Chapter 4 Research Design ...... 35
4.1 Research Questions........ 35
4.2 Research Methods .......... 35 
4.3 Data Collection .... 36 
4.4 Analysis Procedure ........ 37 
Chapter  5  Relevance-Blending  Model-Based  Interpretation ........... 39 
5.1 Data Analysis ....... 39 
5.2 Analysis of English Verbal Humor with RB Model ...... 40 
5.3 Characteristics of Verbal Humor in Conan .......... 56 
5.4 Summary .... 59 

Chapter 5 Relevance-Blending Model-Based Interpretation of English Verbal Humor 

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