| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| ·The objective of this thesis | 第9-10页 |
| ·The layout of this thesis | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review andTheoretical Framework | 第11-22页 |
| ·General review of the study on humor | 第11-13页 |
| ·Linguistic theories of humor | 第13-15页 |
| ·The study of humor from the perspective of pragmatics | 第15-22页 |
| ·Understanding of humor from the cooperative principle | 第15-18页 |
| ·Understanding of humor from the relevance theory | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter Three Humor in Mark Twain’s Representativ Short Stories | 第22-29页 |
| ·Humor in literature | 第22-23页 |
| ·Mark Twain as a humorist | 第23-24页 |
| ·Characteristics of humor in Mark Twain’s short stories | 第24-29页 |
| ·Features of humor in the content | 第24-26页 |
| ·Features of humor in the language | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis on Humor in Mark Twain’s Representative Short Stories Through Cooperative Principle | 第29-34页 |
| ·Humor realized by flouting of CP maxims | 第29-30页 |
| ·CP analysis of Mark Twain’s representative short stories | 第30-34页 |
| ·The flouting of quality maxim | 第30-31页 |
| ·The flouting of quantity maxim | 第31-32页 |
| ·The flouting of relevance maxim | 第32页 |
| ·The flouting of manner maxim | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis on Humor in Mark Twain’s Representative Short Stories Through Relevance Theory | 第34-37页 |
| ·Relevance theory and humor effects in literature works | 第34页 |
| ·Short story humor in light of relevance theory | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第37-40页 |
| ·Main findings | 第37-38页 |
| ·Implications | 第38-39页 |
| ·Limitation and suggestions for future research | 第39-40页 |
| Bibliography | 第40-44页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第44-45页 |
| 附录 | 第45页 |
