| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第8-10页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ LINGUISTIC CONCEPT OF IRONY | 第10-15页 |
| ·Definitional Issues | 第10-12页 |
| ·Irony vs. Sarcasm and Satire | 第10-11页 |
| ·Irony vs. Lies | 第11页 |
| ·Irony vs. Parody | 第11-12页 |
| ·Forms of Irony | 第12-15页 |
| ·Verbal irony | 第12页 |
| ·Situational Irony | 第12-13页 |
| ·Dramatic Irony | 第13-14页 |
| ·Sarcastic Irony | 第14页 |
| ·Kind Irony | 第14-15页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ IRONY AS AN INDIRECT SPEECH ACT | 第15-21页 |
| ·General Review of Speech Act Theory | 第15-16页 |
| ·Irony as an Indirect Speech Act | 第16-19页 |
| ·Constitutive Conditions of Irony | 第19-21页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ IMPLICATURES OF IRONY | 第21-33页 |
| ·Explicit and Implicit Irony | 第21-22页 |
| ·Meaning and Intention | 第22-23页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and Ironical Implicatures | 第23-33页 |
| ·Violation of the Quality Maxim | 第25-26页 |
| ·Violation of the Quantity Maxim | 第26-29页 |
| ·Violation of the Relation Maxim | 第29-30页 |
| ·Violation of the Manner Maxim | 第30-33页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ INFERENCE SCHEMA OF IRONY | 第33-37页 |
| ·Meaning Analysis of Irony | 第33-34页 |
| ·Meaning the opposite of what one says | 第33页 |
| ·Meaning different or much more than one says | 第33-34页 |
| ·Paradox | 第33页 |
| ·Oxymoron | 第33-34页 |
| ·Innuendo | 第34页 |
| ·Sarcasm | 第34页 |
| ·Rhetorical Questions | 第34页 |
| ·Inference Schema of Irony | 第34-37页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ IRONY IN COMMUNICATION | 第37-46页 |
| ·Responses to Conversational Irony in Interaction | 第37-38页 |
| ·Responses to the Literal | 第37-38页 |
| ·Responses to the Implicated | 第38页 |
| ·Mixed Response | 第38页 |
| ·Ambiguous Response | 第38页 |
| ·Laughter as a Response | 第38页 |
| ·Functions and Purposes of Irony | 第38-46页 |
| ·Irony may Distance Speakers from Hearers | 第39-40页 |
| ·Irony may Bond Speakers and Hearers | 第40-41页 |
| ·Irony may serve as a Politeness Strategy for Face-saving | 第41-42页 |
| ·Irony may serve as a Means of Negotiation | 第42页 |
| ·Irony may serve as a Means of Obtaining Pleasures | 第42-44页 |
| ·Irony may serve as a Communicative Form to Create A Set of Effects | 第44页 |
| ·Ironic Communication may serve as a Sign of Respect for Conventions | 第44-45页 |
| ·Ironic Communication may serve as a Means to Safeguard Personal Space | 第45-46页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第46-48页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第48-51页 |
| 在读期间发表论文 | 第51页 |
