| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One A General Description of Irony | 第12-20页 |
| ·A Brief Survey of the History of Irony | 第12-13页 |
| ·A Typological Investigation into Irony | 第13-15页 |
| ·Literary Classification of Irony | 第13-15页 |
| ·Pragmatic Classification of Irony | 第15页 |
| ·Pragmatic Strategies in Ironic Communication | 第15-16页 |
| ·Pragmatic Functions of Irony | 第16-20页 |
| ·Creating Amusement | 第16-18页 |
| ·Saving Face | 第18-19页 |
| ·Making Criticism | 第19页 |
| ·Showing Power | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two Traditional and Pragmatic Theories of Irony:A Review | 第20-31页 |
| ·Dictionary Definitions of Irony | 第20-21页 |
| ·Traditional Semantic Definition of Irony | 第21-23页 |
| ·Linguistic Theories of Irony | 第23-29页 |
| ·Traditional Linguistic Theories of Irony | 第24页 |
| ·Grice's Pragmatic Theory of Irony | 第24-26页 |
| ·Post-Gricean Theories of Irony | 第26-29页 |
| ·Defects of Traditional and Pragmatic Approaches of Irony | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Cognitive Environments for Identifying Irony | 第31-39页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31页 |
| ·Properties of Ironic Utterance | 第31-35页 |
| ·Indeterminacy and Vagueness of Ironic Implications | 第31-32页 |
| ·Plurality of Ironic Interpretation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Extendibility of Ironic Implication | 第33-35页 |
| ·Mutuality:The Precondition for Ironic Communication | 第35-38页 |
| ·Elements of Mutuality | 第35-36页 |
| ·Necessity of Mutuality in Ironic Communication | 第36-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Four Cognitive Criteria for Ironic Communication | 第39-52页 |
| ·Introduction | 第39页 |
| ·Pragma-psychological Aspect of the Cognitive Criteria of Irony | 第39-45页 |
| ·The Echoism Hypothesis—Irony as Echoic Interpretation | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Pretense Hypothesis—Irony as Pretense | 第42-44页 |
| ·An Alternative Hypothesis—Irony as a Counter-expectational Mismatch | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Nature of Irony:Part of the Cognitive Criteria of Irony | 第45-50页 |
| ·Irony as a Critical Evaluation | 第45-46页 |
| ·Irony as Misapplication of a Critical Value | 第46-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Five Ironic Cognition and the Relevance Principle | 第52-60页 |
| ·The Principle of Ironic Cognition | 第52-57页 |
| ·Recognition of Ironic Implicatures | 第57-58页 |
| ·Recognition of Ironic Impression and Attitude | 第58-60页 |
| Conclusion | 第60-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65-66页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第66页 |
