| Abstract | 第1-11页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第11-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第17-38页 |
| ·The Definition of Humor | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Etymon of Humor | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Cognitive Definition of Humor | 第18页 |
| ·The Psychological Definition of Humor | 第18页 |
| ·The Sociological Definition of Humor | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Lexicographic Definition of Humor | 第19页 |
| ·A Survey of Conventional Study on Humor | 第19-33页 |
| ·The Ancient Greek Humor Theory | 第20-25页 |
| ·Socratic Irony | 第20-21页 |
| ·Plato’s Ignorance Humor | 第21-24页 |
| ·Aristotle’s Poetics | 第24-25页 |
| ·Three Basic Conventional Theories on Humor | 第25-33页 |
| ·Superiority Theory or Sudden Glory Theory | 第25-26页 |
| ·Relief Theory | 第26-27页 |
| ·Incongruity Theory or Incongruity-Resolution Theory | 第27-33页 |
| ·Kant’s Defeated Expectation Theory | 第28-30页 |
| ·Bergson’s Theory on Laughter | 第30-33页 |
| ·A Survey of Modern Linguistic Theories on Humor | 第33-36页 |
| ·Victor Raskin’s Script-based Semantic Theory of Humor (SSTH) | 第33-34页 |
| ·The General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) | 第34-35页 |
| ·Attardo’s Isotopy-Disjunction Model of Jokes (IDM) | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Study on Humor at Home | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Discussion | 第38-49页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implicature | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle and Its Maxims | 第39-41页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Politeness Principle | 第42-44页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第44-49页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions on Speech Acts | 第45-47页 |
| ·Searle’s Classification of Speech Acts | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Three Pragmatic Study on Humor in Friends | 第49-100页 |
| ·The Definition of Situation Comedy | 第49页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Friends | 第49-51页 |
| ·C ooperative Principle and Humor | 第51-81页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating the Cooperative Principle | 第51-81页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating Maxim of Quantity | 第53-57页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating Maxim of Quality | 第57-68页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating the First Maxim of Quality | 第57-67页 |
| ·. Use of Irony | 第57-61页 |
| ·. Use of Metaphor | 第61-64页 |
| ·. Use of Meiosis | 第64-65页 |
| ·. Use of Hyperbole | 第65-67页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating the Second Maxim of Quality | 第67-68页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating Maxim of Relation | 第68-71页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating Maxim of Manner | 第71-81页 |
| ·Use of Euphemism | 第71-74页 |
| ·Use of Paradox | 第74-75页 |
| ·Use of Pun | 第75-81页 |
| ·. Homonymous Pun | 第75-78页 |
| ·. Homophonic Pun | 第78-81页 |
| ·Politeness Principle and Humor | 第81-88页 |
| ·Humor Created by Observing the Politeness Principle | 第82-85页 |
| ·Humor Created by Violating the Politeness Principle | 第85-88页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory and Humor | 第88-97页 |
| ·Humor Created by the Speech Act—Representatives | 第88-90页 |
| ·Humor Created by the Speech Act—Directives | 第90-93页 |
| ·Humor Created by the Speech Act—Commissives | 第93-94页 |
| ·Humor Created by the Speech Act—Expressives | 第94-96页 |
| ·Humor Created by the Speech Act—Declarations | 第96-97页 |
| ·Conventional Theories and Humor | 第97-99页 |
| ·Summary | 第99-100页 |
| Chapter Four Implications | 第100-110页 |
| ·Implications for Better Understanding Humor in English Sitcoms | 第100-105页 |
| ·Pragmatic Competence | 第100-105页 |
| ·Lexical and Grammatical Competence | 第100页 |
| ·Context Analysis Competence | 第100-102页 |
| ·Conversation Analysis Competence | 第102页 |
| ·Bicultural Communication Competence | 第102-105页 |
| ·Implications for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning | 第105-110页 |
| ·Cultivating the Students’Pragmatic Competence | 第105-106页 |
| ·Using Humor in Foreign Language Teaching | 第106-110页 |
| ·For the Shy and Timid Students | 第107页 |
| ·For the Slow-witted Students | 第107-108页 |
| ·For the Undisciplined Students | 第108-110页 |
| Conclusion | 第110-112页 |
| Bibliography | 第112-116页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第116-117页 |
| Published Papers | 第117页 |
