| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12-13页 |
| ·General purpose of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Rationale of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research questions of the study | 第15页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-32页 |
| ·Introduction to verbal humor | 第18-22页 |
| ·Definition and categorization of humor | 第18-20页 |
| ·Overview of the script Total Women | 第20-21页 |
| ·Verbal humor elicitation of Total Women | 第21-22页 |
| ·Previous studies on verbal humor | 第22-32页 |
| ·Studies on humor in psychological and philosophical domain | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Superiority theory | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Incongruity theory | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Relief theory | 第25-26页 |
| ·Studies on verbal humor in linguistics | 第26-32页 |
| ·The Semantic Script Theory of Verbal Humor | 第27-28页 |
| ·The General Theory of Verbal Humor | 第28-30页 |
| ·Marked Informativeness | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Three Pragmatic Studies on Verbal Humor | 第32-56页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition and verbal humor elicitation | 第32-38页 |
| ·A brief introduction to pragmatic presupposition | 第32-33页 |
| ·Cognitive multi-dimensionality and humor elicitation | 第33-35页 |
| ·Failure to perceive pragmatic presupposition | 第33-34页 |
| ·Contrast between SAPP and HASP | 第34-35页 |
| ·Defeasibility and humor elicitation | 第35-38页 |
| ·Presupposition cancelled by linguistic factors | 第36-37页 |
| ·Presupposition cancelled by non-linguistic factors | 第37-38页 |
| ·Conversational implicature_G and verbal humor elicitation | 第38-45页 |
| ·A brief introduction to cooperative principle | 第38-41页 |
| ·Flouting Maxim of Quality | 第41-42页 |
| ·Flouting Maxim of Quantity | 第42-44页 |
| ·Flouting Maxim of Manner | 第44-45页 |
| ·Relevance and verbal humor elicitation | 第45-49页 |
| ·A brief introduction to Relevance theory | 第45-46页 |
| ·Optimal relevance and verbal humor elicitation | 第46-49页 |
| ·Contextual adaptation and verbal humor interpretation | 第49-56页 |
| ·Key concepts of Adaptation theory | 第49-50页 |
| ·Dynamic role shift and language variability | 第50-52页 |
| ·Negotiable adaptation to context | 第52-56页 |
| ·Adaptation to persona's mental world | 第53-54页 |
| ·Adaptation to imagined physical and social world | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Four Discussion | 第56-62页 |
| ·Further discussion of pragmatic analysis | 第56-58页 |
| ·Two-stage processing and pragmatic analyses | 第58-61页 |
| ·An integrated pragmatic mechanism of verbal humor elicitation | 第61-62页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| ·Major findings | 第62页 |
| ·Implications | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further study | 第63-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
| Papers Published from 2007 to 2010 | 第67-68页 |
