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English verbal humor is special culture character and unique connotation. Thus, how to understand Chinese and English humor better, could possess significant effects on achieving cross culture communications, especially on foreign affairs. However, there is no systematic researches about humor, more attention are paid on humorous phenomenon, mainly focus on humorous phenomenon and humorous language in literaturry works, films and television programs. Although there is a research on its functions of business intercourse from social pragmatics(Liu Naishi,Xiong Xueliang), but the social functions of verbal humor should be associated with contextual factors of interactors’ status, and communicative situations. 然而我国对幽默研究还缺乏系统性，更多的是关注幽默现象，主要集中在对文学作品，影视作品中幽默现象和语言的解释和分析，也有人从社会语用方面探讨了它在商务交际中的功能(刘乃实，熊学亮)。但幽默的交际功能的进一步研究应结合交际者的地位、交际场所等语境因素展开。
Therefore, this thesis tries to begin from the perspective of inter-cultural pragmatics. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction of this thesis which talks about the background and possible significance. Chapter 2 is a literature review of the major theoretical foundations, which includes Western scholars and Chinese scholars’ rearches about politeness and face theory, and my opinions towards politeness theory will be given which combined with culture and context factors. In Chapter 3, first reviewed the studies of humor at abroad and home, then compare the similarities and differences systemically between Chinese and English humor, and find the deep reason to form these discrepant. Chapter 4 is a analysis of pragmatic functions of verbal humor in Sino-US key figures’ foreign affairs, use demonstrations to analyse the usage of humor and its practical pragmatic functions of lessening communicative pressure, criticizing ingeniously and refuting opponent in such special context. Chapter 5 is conclusion of this thesis, in oder to help people understand foreign humor better, further to guide the usage of humor in inter-cultural intercourse.

Keywords politeness theory; foreign affairs; context factor; humor function

 Contents
摘要 I
Abstract II
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background and Purpose of Research 1
1.2 Possible Significance of This Study 21
1.3 The Structure of the Thesis 2
2 Theoretical Foundations 3
2.1 The Definition of Politeness 4
2.2 Theories on Politeness Abroad 5
2.2.1 Goffman’s views of Politeness and Face 6
2.2.2 Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Principle 6
2.2.3 Leech’s Politeness Principle 9
2.2.4 Ron Scollon and Suzanne Wong Scollon’s Politeness Principle  10
2.2.5 Ting-Toomey’s Face Theory 11
2.3 Theories on Politeness in China 12
2.4 Summary 13
3 The Study of Humor 15
3.1 Definition of Humor 1
3.2 The Studies of Humor from Western Perspective 17
3.3 The Studies of Humor from Chinese Perspective 17
3.4 Th Cross-cultural Comparison between Western and Chinese humor 17
3.5 Pragmatic Interpretations of Humor 17
3.5.1 Context 6
3.5.2 Cultural context and verbal humor 6
3.6 Summary 17
4 Verbal Humor with Pragmatic Functions in Sino-US Foreign Affairs 19
4.1 Functions of verbal humor in diplomatic negotiations 17
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