| Introduction | 第1-13页 |
| Chapter 1 An Overview of Humor Research | 第13-18页 |
| §1.1 Humor Research Falling into the Scope of Pragmatics | 第13-14页 |
| §1.2 Current Status of Humor Research at Home and Abroad | 第14-15页 |
| §1.3 Defects in Current Humor Research | 第15-16页 |
| §1.4 Improvements on Humor Research in This Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Panoramic View of Linguistic Humor | 第18-57页 |
| §2.1 Humor: the Word and Concept | 第18-21页 |
| ·Etymology and Definition of Humor | 第18-19页 |
| ·Classification of Humor | 第19-20页 |
| ·Differentiation between Humor, Joke, Gag and Wisecrack | 第20-21页 |
| §2.2 Interpersonal Functions of Linguistic Humor | 第21-28页 |
| §2.3 Structural Analysis on Humor | 第28-57页 |
| ·Surface Structure of Humor | 第29-39页 |
| (1) Phonetic features of humor | 第29-30页 |
| (2) Wording features of humor | 第30-33页 |
| (3) Syntactic features of humor | 第33-34页 |
| (4) Semantic features of humor | 第34-37页 |
| (5) Discourse features of humor | 第37-39页 |
| ·Deep Structure of Humor | 第39-57页 |
| ·Psychological Foundation of Humor | 第39-42页 |
| ·Cognitive Foundation of Humor | 第42-45页 |
| ·Relevant Theories in Interpreting Mental Mechanism of Humor Production and Comprehension | 第45-57页 |
| (1) Grice's Cooperative Principle | 第46-51页 |
| (2) Leech's Polite Principle | 第51-52页 |
| (3) Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory | 第52-57页 |
| Chapter 3 Relationship between Humor Research and Cultivation of English Communicative Competence | 第57-69页 |
| §3.1 Linguistic Communicative Competence | 第58-62页 |
| (1) Grammatical competence | 第59页 |
| (2) Pragmatic competence | 第59-61页 |
| (3) Psycho-cognitive competence | 第61-62页 |
| §3.2 Humor Research Conducive to Cultivation of English Communicative Competence | 第62-65页 |
| §3.3 Factors Influencing Humor Comprehension and Suggested Solutions | 第65-69页 |
| (1) Lack of linguistic knowledge | 第65-66页 |
| (2) Weak pragmatic inferential competence | 第66-67页 |
| (3) Lack of social and cultural background knowledge | 第67-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第71-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-76页 |
