| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Research Objective | 第13-15页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第15页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第15-16页 |
| ·Thesis Organization | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-25页 |
| ·Criticism Review on Jane Austen and Sense and Sensibility | 第17-21页 |
| ·Irony as One of the Most Outstanding Features in Sense and Sensibility | 第21-22页 |
| ·Definition and Classification of Irony | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Three A Literary Pragmatic Approach to Appreciating Irony | 第25-38页 |
| ·A Brief Generalization on Literary Pragmatics(LP) | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Communication between Author and Readers | 第25-26页 |
| ·Macro-speech Acts and Micro-speech Acts | 第26-28页 |
| ·Austin-Searle's Speech Act Theory(SAT) as a Core Theory of LP | 第28-32页 |
| ·Austin's Three Kinds of Speech Acts | 第28-30页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions | 第30页 |
| ·Searle's Revision of Austin's SAT | 第30-32页 |
| ·Direct Speech Act and Indirect Speech Act | 第32-33页 |
| ·Understanding Irony under the Framework of SAT | 第33-38页 |
| ·Irony and Indirect Speech Act | 第33-34页 |
| ·Irony and Felicity Conditions | 第34页 |
| ·Irony and Illocutionary Force | 第34-36页 |
| ·Irony and Perlocutionary Act | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four An Analysis of Irony in Sense and Sensibility by Applying Austin and Searle's SAT | 第38-69页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Plot Development in Sense and Sensibility | 第38-39页 |
| ·Macro Speech Acts | 第39-62页 |
| ·Macro Literal Irony | 第40-43页 |
| ·Macro Structural Irony | 第43-62页 |
| ·Situational Irony | 第44-56页 |
| ·Dramatic Irony | 第56-62页 |
| ·Micro Speech Acts---Verbal Irony | 第62-69页 |
| ·Assertive Irony | 第62-64页 |
| ·Directive Irony | 第64-65页 |
| ·Commissive Irony | 第65页 |
| ·Expressive Irony | 第65-67页 |
| ·Declarative Irony | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-74页 |
