| ACKNOWLEGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-23页 |
| 1.1 Oscar Wilde and His Four Comedies | 第11-13页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第13-17页 |
| 1.2.1 Literature Review at home | 第13-15页 |
| 1.2.2 Literature Review abroad | 第15-17页 |
| 1.3 Theoretical Perspective | 第17-21页 |
| 1.4 The Significance and Layout of the Thesis | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Two PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS AND HUMORINCONGRUITY IN OSCAR WILDE’S FOUR COMEDIES | 第23-29页 |
| 2.1 Presupposition Triggers and Humor Incongruity at Lexical Level | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2 Presupposition Triggers and Humor Incongruity at Syntactic Level | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3 Presupposition Triggers and Humor Incongruity at Phonological Level | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Three HUMOR INCONGRUITY AND PRESUPPOSITIONMECHANISMS IN OSCAR WILDE’S COMEDIES | 第29-43页 |
| 3.1 The Verbal Humor Invoked by Presupposition-based Incongruity in OscarWilde’s comedies | 第29-34页 |
| 3.1.1 Incongruity against Actual Situation | 第29-31页 |
| 3.1.2 Incongruity against General Knowledge | 第31-33页 |
| 3.1.3 Incongruity against Following Utterances | 第33-34页 |
| 3.2 The Verbal Humor Invoked by Four Presupposition Manipulations in OscarWilde’s comedies | 第34-43页 |
| 3.2.1 Verbal Humor Caused by Preserved Presupposition | 第34-36页 |
| 3.2.2 Verbal Humor Caused by Cancelled Presupposition | 第36-38页 |
| 3.2.3 Verbal Humor Caused by False Presupposition | 第38-40页 |
| 3.2.4 Verbal Humor Caused by Contradicted Presupposition | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Four THE FUNCTIONS OF PRESUPPOSITION-PROPELLEDHUMOR IN OSCAR WILDE’S COMEDIES | 第43-69页 |
| 4.1 Creating Vivid Characters | 第43-52页 |
| 4.1.1 The Image of Dandies | 第43-49页 |
| 4.1.2 The Image of New Women | 第49-52页 |
| 4.2 Revealing Themes | 第52-61页 |
| 4.2.1 Hypocritical Morality | 第53-55页 |
| 4.2.2 Paradoxical Marriage | 第55-58页 |
| 4.2.3 Ridiculous Idealism | 第58-61页 |
| 4.3 Exposing the Social Reality in Victorian era | 第61-69页 |
| 4.3.1 Emptiness in Life | 第62-64页 |
| 4.3.2 Lack of Belief | 第64-69页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第69-73页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第73-77页 |
| 附录: 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第77页 |
