| 1 Introduction | 第1-19页 |
| ·About humor | 第12-16页 |
| ·What is humor | 第12-14页 |
| ·Humor studies and theories of humor | 第14-16页 |
| ·Classification of humor | 第16页 |
| ·Pragmatics and pragmatic humor researc(?) | 第16-19页 |
| ·Brief description of pragmatics | 第16-18页 |
| ·Pragmatic humor research | 第18-19页 |
| 2 Relevance theory and SD model | 第19-29页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第19-24页 |
| ·The view of communication in relevance theory | 第19-21页 |
| ·Inference in communicative process | 第21-22页 |
| ·Relevance | 第22-23页 |
| ·View of context | 第23-24页 |
| ·IR theory and Ritchie's interpretation with SD model | 第24-29页 |
| ·Sketch of IR theory | 第25页 |
| ·Ritchie's interpretation with SD model | 第25-29页 |
| 3 Analyzing humor with relevance theory | 第29-40页 |
| ·Dynamic view of context & view of relevance-scientific theoretical bases | 第29-30页 |
| ·The essence of humorous effect | 第30-31页 |
| ·Maximal relevance expectation has no numorous effect | 第31-35页 |
| ·Scientific theoretical basis for the cognitive principle | 第31-32页 |
| ·Contents of the maximal relevance expectation | 第32-34页 |
| ·Maximal relevance expectation is not humorous | 第34-35页 |
| ·Gap between maximal and optimal relevance-the source of humor | 第35-39页 |
| ·Sudden change of cognitive environment-embodiment of utterance humor | 第39-40页 |
| 4 Evaluation of Ritchie's SD model | 第40-53页 |
| ·A problem in SD model | 第41-43页 |
| ·Explanation and solution of the problem with relevance theory | 第43-53页 |
| ·Definition of M_2-cause of the problem | 第43-48页 |
| ·Reconstruct SD model by relevance theory | 第48-53页 |
| 5 Laughter-making mechanism and motivation for producing utterance humor | 第53-62页 |
| ·Laughter-making mechanism | 第53-59页 |
| ·Brief introduction of relief theory | 第54页 |
| ·Relief of psychological pressure-cause of comicality | 第54-59页 |
| ·Motivation of making utterance humor | 第59-62页 |
| ·Unconsciously made utterance humor | 第59-60页 |
| ·Consciously made utterance humor | 第60-62页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
