| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·Background | 第10-11页 |
| ·Objectives of this research | 第11-13页 |
| ·The significance of this thesis | 第13-14页 |
| ·The language material and methods of study | 第14-15页 |
| ·The organization of this thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-26页 |
| ·Traditional accounts of irony | 第17-20页 |
| ·Irony in poetry and novel | 第18-19页 |
| ·Irony in drama | 第19-20页 |
| ·Contemporary studies on irony | 第20-23页 |
| ·Previous studies on Samuel Beckett’s plays | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Overview | 第26-37页 |
| ·The pretense theory of irony | 第26-28页 |
| ·The allusional pretense theory of irony | 第28-31页 |
| ·Giora’s irony theory | 第31-35页 |
| ·Giora’s indirect negation view of irony | 第32-33页 |
| ·The graded salience hypothesis | 第33-35页 |
| ·The time-space notion | 第35-36页 |
| ·Emotional reactions to verbal ironies | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four A PragmaticAnalysis of Ironies in Beckett’s Plays | 第37-49页 |
| ·Allusional pretense in Beckett’s plays | 第37-42页 |
| ·Indirect negation in Beckett’s plays | 第42-45页 |
| ·Graded salience in Beckett’s plays | 第45-49页 |
| Chapter Five A CognitiveAnalysis of Ironies in Beckett’s Plays | 第49-61页 |
| ·Time-space notion in Beckett’s plays | 第49-55页 |
| ·Emotional reactions to verbal ironies in Beckett’s plays | 第55-61页 |
| ·The emotional reactions in Waiting for Godot | 第56-58页 |
| ·The emotional reactions in Not I and Come and Go | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第61-64页 |
| ·Brief Summary of the thesis | 第61-62页 |
| ·Originalities of the thesis | 第62页 |
| ·Expectations of this research | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
| 发表论文和参加科研情况说明 | 第67-68页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第68-69页 |
