| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·Review of Studies of Humor | 第13-18页 |
| ·Three Basic Conventional Humor Theories | 第13-15页 |
| ·Modern Linguistic Approaches to Humor | 第15-18页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Situation Comedy | 第18-19页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Friends and ILMF | 第19-21页 |
| ·An Introduction to Friends | 第19页 |
| ·An Introduction to ILMF | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Pragmatic Approaches | 第21-28页 |
| ·Grice’s Conversational Implicature | 第21-24页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and Its Four Maxims | 第22-23页 |
| ·Nonobservance of the Conversational Maxims | 第23-24页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principle | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Relationship Between CP and PP | 第24页 |
| ·Leech’s Maxims of PP | 第24-26页 |
| ·Context Theory | 第26-28页 |
| ·Context of Situation | 第26-27页 |
| ·Context of Culture | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three A Pragmatic Comparison of Humor in Friends and ILMF | 第28-41页 |
| ·A Comparative Study of Humor in Terms of CP | 第28-35页 |
| ·Humor Produced by Violating the Maxim of Quantity | 第28-29页 |
| ·Humor Produced by Violating the Maxim of Quality | 第29-31页 |
| ·Humor Produced by Violating the Maxim of Relation | 第31-33页 |
| ·Humor Produced by Violating the Maxim of Manner | 第33-35页 |
| ·A Comparative Study of Humor inTerms of PP | 第35-41页 |
| ·Humor Produced by Observing PP | 第35-37页 |
| ·Humor Produced by Violating PP | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Four A Pragmatic Comparison of Humor Comprehension in Friends and ILMF | 第41-56页 |
| ·A Comparative Analysis of Humor in Terms of Situational Context | 第41-46页 |
| ·Violation of the Field of Discourse | 第41-43页 |
| ·Violation of the Mode of Discourse | 第43-44页 |
| ·Violation of the Tenor of Discourse | 第44-46页 |
| ·A Comparative Analysis of Humor in Terms of Cultural Context | 第46-56页 |
| ·Different Cultural Backgrounds | 第46-52页 |
| ·Different Cultural Values | 第52-53页 |
| ·Different Interpersonal Relationships | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter Five Significance of the Pragmatic Comparative Study of Humor in Friends and ILMF | 第56-61页 |
| ·Application of Humor to Cross-cultural Communication | 第56-57页 |
| ·Application of Humor to English Teaching and Learning | 第57-61页 |
| ·Application of humor to English learning | 第58页 |
| ·Application of Humor to English Teaching | 第58-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-64页 |
