| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-21页 |
| Chapter One Comparability between Metaphor and Irony | 第21-36页 |
| ·The Philosophical Basis of Metaphor and Irony | 第21-33页 |
| ·The Development of Metaphor in Philosophy | 第21-26页 |
| ·The Development of Irony in Philosophy | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Similar Philosophical Basis of Metaphor and Irony | 第30-33页 |
| ·The Thinking Patterns of Metaphor and Irony | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Two The Pragmatic Features of Metaphor and Irony | 第36-50页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Features of Metaphor | 第36-41页 |
| ·The Definitions of Metaphor | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Taxonomies of Metaphor | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Expressing Devices of Metaphor | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Features of Irony | 第41-50页 |
| ·The Definitions of Irony | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Taxonomies of Irony | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Expressing Devices of Irony | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter Three The Similarities between Metaphor and Irony | 第50-67页 |
| ·The Similarities in Ways of Expressing | 第50-53页 |
| ·The Similarities in Violations of Pragmatic Principles | 第53-56页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxims of Cooperative Principle | 第53-55页 |
| ·Violation of the Speech Act Theory | 第55-56页 |
| ·The Similarities in Their Situations | 第56-60页 |
| ·Psychological Motivations | 第57-59页 |
| ·Consideration of Politeness | 第57-58页 |
| ·Carrying out Face Saving Acts | 第58-59页 |
| ·Rhetoric Effects | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Similarities in Restrictive Factors in Their Using and Understanding | 第60-65页 |
| ·Linguistic Context | 第61-62页 |
| ·Nonlinguistic Context | 第62-65页 |
| ·Communicative Context | 第62-64页 |
| ·Cultural Context | 第64-65页 |
| ·The Similarities in Cognitive Process | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter Four The Differences between Metaphor and Irony | 第67-80页 |
| ·The Differences in Pragmatic Functions | 第67-72页 |
| ·The Differences in Styles and Propositional Contents | 第72-74页 |
| ·The Differences in Understanding | 第74-80页 |
| ·Different Understanding Processes | 第75-77页 |
| ·Different Cognitive Efforts | 第77-80页 |
| Chapter Five Metaphoric Irony | 第80-99页 |
| ·The Definition of Metaphoric Irony | 第80-81页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Metaphoric Irony | 第81-84页 |
| ·Indeterminacy | 第81-83页 |
| ·Duality | 第83页 |
| ·Undetachability | 第83-84页 |
| ·The Understanding of Metaphoric Irony | 第84-99页 |
| ·Understanding Process of Metaphoric Irony | 第84-88页 |
| ·A New Understanding Model of Metaphoric Irony | 第88-94页 |
| ·Processing Effort of Metaphoric Irony | 第94-99页 |
| Conclusion | 第99-104页 |
| Bibliography | 第104-110页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第110-111页 |
| Appendix A（攻读学位期间发表论文目录） | 第111页 |
