| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE LITERATURE REVIEW | 第13-20页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THE GENERAL FEATURES OF IRONY | 第20-22页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE REASONS FOR IRONY IN JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Background of the Writing of Female Writers at the Turn of Eighteenth Century | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Event of Mary Wollstonecraft | 第24-26页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR IRONIES CONCERNING TEXT AND THEIR FUNCTIONS IN JANE AUSTEN'A NOVELS | 第26-50页 |
| ·Verbal Irony and Its Function in Jane Austen's Writings | 第26-34页 |
| ·Definition of Verbal Irony | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Use of Verbal Irony and Its Contribution to characterization of Jane Austen's Novels | 第27-34页 |
| ·Antiphrasis | 第28-30页 |
| ·Understatement and Overstatement | 第30-32页 |
| ·Juxtaposition of Opposite Meanings | 第32页 |
| ·Litotes and Repetition | 第32-33页 |
| ·Other Example of Verbal Irony from Jane Austen's Novels ·21 | 第33-34页 |
| ·Dramatic Irony and Its Function in Jane Austen's Writings | 第34-39页 |
| ·Definition of Dramatic Irony | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Use of Dramatic Irony and Its Contribution to Characterization of Jane Austen's Novels | 第35-39页 |
| ·Situational Irony and Its Function in Jane Austen's Writings | 第39-44页 |
| ·Definition of Situational Irony | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Use of Situational Irony and Its Contribution to Structure of Jane Austen's Novel Emma | 第40-44页 |
| ·Structural Irony and Its Function in Jane Austen's Writings | 第44-50页 |
| ·Definition of Structural Irony | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Use of Structural Irony and Its Contribution to Characterization of Emma | 第45-50页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE IRONIES CONCERNING CONTEXT AND THEIR FUNCTIONS IN JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS | 第50-59页 |
| ·Mode Irony and Its Function in Jane Austen's Novels | 第50-54页 |
| ·Definition of Mode Irony | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Use of Mode Irony and Its Contribution to Theme of Jane Austen's Novels | 第51-54页 |
| ·General Irony and Its Contribution to Theme of Jane Austen's Novels | 第54-59页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第59-61页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第61-64页 |
| APPENDIX | 第64-65页 |
