| Abstract | 第8页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Research Purpose and Significance | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3 Research Objectives | 第14-15页 |
| 1.4 The Structure of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-24页 |
| 2.1 Overview of Humor Studies both in Abroad and at Home | 第17-18页 |
| 2.1.1 Previous Studies of Humor in Abroad | 第17页 |
| 2.1.2 Previous Studies of Humor at Home | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies of Humor in Sitcom both in Abroad and at Home | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2.1 Previous Studies of Humor in Sitcom in Abroad | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2.2 Previous Studies of Humor in Sitcom at Home | 第19页 |
| 2.3 Previous Studies of Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第19-21页 |
| 2.3.1 Previous Studies of Multimodal Discourse Analysis in Abroad | 第20页 |
| 2.3.2 Previous Studies of Multimodal Discourse Analysis at Home | 第20-21页 |
| 2.4 Previous Studies of Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Humor | 第21页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第24-31页 |
| 3.1 Halliday‘s Systemic Functional Grammar | 第24-25页 |
| 3.2 Kress and Van Leeuwen‘s Visual Grammar | 第25-29页 |
| 3.2.1The Representational Meaning | 第25-27页 |
| 3.2.2 The Interactive Meaning | 第27页 |
| 3.2.3 The Compositional Meaning | 第27-29页 |
| 3.3 Incongruity-Resolution Theory of Humor | 第29页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four Research Methodology | 第31-35页 |
| 4.1 Research Questions | 第31页 |
| 4.2 Research Design | 第31页 |
| 4.3 Research Procedures | 第31-32页 |
| 4.4 Data Collection and Analysis | 第32-35页 |
| 4.4.1 Data Collection | 第32-33页 |
| 4.4.2 Analysis | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Five Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Humor in the Sitcom Mr. Bean | 第35-66页 |
| 5.1 The Forms of Multimodality in the Sitcom Mr. Bean | 第35-40页 |
| 5.1.1 From the Perspective of Visual Modality | 第36-38页 |
| 5.1.2 From the Perspective of Verbal Modality | 第38-40页 |
| 5.2 Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Sitcom Mr. Bean | 第40-61页 |
| 5.2.1 Analysis from the Representational Meaning | 第40-45页 |
| 5.2.2 Analysis from the Interactive Meaning | 第45-57页 |
| 5.2.3 Analysis from the Compositional Meaning | 第57-61页 |
| 5.3 Humorous Effects in Sitcom Mr. Bean | 第61-66页 |
| 5.3.1 Humorous Effects in Representational Meaning | 第62-63页 |
| 5.3.2 Humorous Effects in Interactive Meaning | 第63-64页 |
| 5.3.3 Humorous Effects in Compositional Meaning | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第66-69页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings and contributions of the present research | 第66-67页 |
| 6.2 Limitations of the present thesis | 第67-68页 |
| 6.3 Suggestions for Future Studies | 第68-69页 |
| References | 第69-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72页 |
