| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第1-17页 |
| ·AIMS OF RESEARCH | 第14页 |
| ·SIGNIFICANCE | 第14-15页 |
| ·THE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SOURCE DATA | 第15-16页 |
| ·OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-31页 |
| ·A REVIEW OF HUMOR RESEARCH | 第17-23页 |
| ·Humor and Humorous Utterances | 第17-18页 |
| ·Theories of Humor | 第18-19页 |
| ·Traditional Approaches to Humorous utterance interpretation | 第19-23页 |
| ·Linguistic Approach | 第19-21页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach | 第21-23页 |
| ·INFERENCE | 第23-30页 |
| ·Logical Approach to Inference | 第24-27页 |
| ·Inductive Inference | 第24-25页 |
| ·Deductive Inference | 第25-26页 |
| ·Abductive Inference | 第26-27页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach to Inference | 第27-30页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第30-31页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RELEVANCE THEORY AND ITS ACCOUNT OF PRAGMATIC INFERENCE | 第31-47页 |
| ·OUTLINE OF RELEVANCE THEORY AND ITS ACCOUNT OF COMMUNICATION AND INFERENCE | 第32-38页 |
| ·Definition of Relevance | 第32-33页 |
| ·Principles of Relevance | 第33-35页 |
| ·Context | 第35-38页 |
| ·A RELEVANCE-THEORETICAL ACCOUNT OF PRAGMATIC INFERENCE | 第38-47页 |
| ·Ostensive Inferential Model of Communication | 第39-42页 |
| ·Ostension from the Communicator | 第41-42页 |
| ·Inference from the Audience | 第42页 |
| ·Nature of Relevance-theoretical Pragmatic Inference | 第42-47页 |
| ·Non-demonstrative Inference and Strength of Assumption | 第42-43页 |
| ·Deduction and Its Role in Non-demonstrative Inference | 第43-47页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RELEVANCE－THEORETIC INFERENTIAL APPROACH TO HUMOROUS UTTERANCES | 第47-59页 |
| ·A RELEVANCE-THEORETICAL ACCOUNT OF VERBAL HUMOR PRODUCTION | 第47-51页 |
| ·The Nature of Humorous Utterances | 第47-49页 |
| ·Causes of Humorous Utterances Production | 第49-51页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC INFERENCE IN HUMOROUS UTTERANCE COMPREHENSION | 第51-59页 |
| ·Pragmatic Inference at the Level of Explicature | 第52-55页 |
| ·Pragmatic Inference at the Level of Implicature | 第55-59页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE RELEVANCE-ORIENTED INFERENTIAL MECHANISM OF HUMOROUS UTTERANCES | 第59-82页 |
| ·GENERAL APPLICATION | 第59页 |
| ·HUMOROUS UTTERANCE COMPREHENSION PROCEDURE | 第59-65页 |
| ·Humorous Utterance Comprehension-A Cognitive Contextualized Process for Relevance | 第59-61页 |
| ·Nature of Humorous Utterance Comprehension- Extra Efforts Means Extra Effects | 第61-63页 |
| ·Humorous Utterance Comprehension Principles Concerned | 第63-65页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC INFERENTIAL MECHANISM OF HUMOROUS UTTERANCE COMPREHENSION | 第65-75页 |
| ·General Strategy | 第65页 |
| ·Relevant Incongruity Emergence | 第65-70页 |
| ·Deductive Inferential Procedures | 第70-75页 |
| ·A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC ANALYSIS GUIDED BY INFERENTIAL MECHANISM OF HUMOROUS UTTERANCE | 第75-82页 |
| CHAPTER SIX ABDUCTIVE INFERENTIAL INTERPRETATION OF HUMOROUS UTTERANCES AND RELEVANCE THEORY | 第82-98页 |
| ·A BRIEF SURVEY ON ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE | 第82-85页 |
| ·Definition and Status of Abductive Inference | 第82-83页 |
| ·Basic Principles of Abductive Inference in Linguistic Application | 第83-85页 |
| ·RELEVANCE THEORY EMBODIES ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE | 第85-87页 |
| ·Similarities between Relevance Theory and Abduction | 第85-86页 |
| ·Abductive Inference within Relevance -theoretic Framework | 第86-87页 |
| ·ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE IN HUMOROUS UTTERANCE INTERPRETATION | 第87-96页 |
| ·Abductive Inferential Mechanism of Humorous Utterances | 第88-92页 |
| ·Abductive Inferential Analysis of Humorous Utterances | 第92-96页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第96-98页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION | 第98-102页 |
| ·FINDINGS | 第98-99页 |
| ·SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FINDINGS | 第99-100页 |
| ·SUGGESTIONS OF FURTHER STUDIES | 第100-102页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第102-104页 |
| 攻读学位期间主要科研成果目录 | 第104页 |
