1、Humor, as a pervasive language phenomenon, plays a significant role in our daily life.Inrecent years, many scholars do research on humor language from different perspectives, suchas sociology, psychology, philosophy, lin

2、guistics so on and so forth.Basically, humorinterpretation is a dynamic process of meaning construction.In this thesis, ConceptualBlending Theory proposed by Fauconnier and Turner is employed to analyze English humorread

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　　There are three questions proposed in this thesis.First, to what extent can ConceptualBlending Theory improve English humor reading? Second, as far as English learners areconcerned, whether Conceptual Blending

4、Theory has strong explanatory power on Englishhumor? Third, what are the factors affecting the English learners' perception of Englishhumor in reading? In order to solve these three problems, a survey including tests and

5、questionnaire and interview has been carried out on 100 freshmen of non-English majors.Quantitative and qualitative analysis has been done on the obtained data.And, quantitativeanalysis has been done by SPSS 16.0.
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6、hrough the analysis of the results in the survey, the author found that ConceptualBlending Theory helps the students in English humor reading and this theory has strong andpowerful explanation on English humor.However, s

7、ome limitations of Conceptual BlendingTheory are found.Although the English learners have the ability of using ConceptualBlending Theory, they are not able to explain all the English humors.In other words,Conceptual Blen

8、ding Theory can help the English learners understand the English humor onlyin some circumstances, not in all.Some factors may prevent them from understanding Englishhumor.
　　Conceptual Blending Theory is a complicated

9、 and abstract theory.In this thesis, thesignificance in English humor understanding is proved through the results from the survey.English learners can improve the perception of English humor in reading by knowing thebasi

10、c idea of Conceptual Blending Theory.The author hopes that teachers can guide theEnglish learners to learn English humor by using Conceptual Blending Theory, so that theycan improve the perception of English humor in rea