| Abstract | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review of Verbal Irony | 第9-16页 |
| ·Concept of Irony | 第9-13页 |
| ·Rhetorical Study of Irony | 第9-11页 |
| ·Semantic Study of Verbal Irony | 第11页 |
| ·Pragmatic Study of Verbal Irony | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Necessity of Study of Irony | 第13页 |
| ·Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of Literary Text | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research of The Four Million at Home and Abroad | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第16-30页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Discourse Understanding | 第16-24页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第16-19页 |
| ·Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Context | 第19-20页 |
| ·Utterance Understanding and Poetic Effects | 第20-24页 |
| ·Understanding Ironic Utterances Within the Relevance-Theoretic Framework | 第24-25页 |
| ·Echoic-Interpretation Theory of Irony | 第25页 |
| ·Yus's Model of Irony Comprehension | 第25-30页 |
| ·Model of Contextual Activation | 第26-28页 |
| ·Criterion of Optimal Accessibility to Irony | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three Analysis on Yus's Model of Irony in The Four Million | 第30-47页 |
| ·Contextual Activation and Verbal Irony in The Four Million | 第30页 |
| ·Analysis on Seven Kinds of Information in Contextual Activation to Verbal Irony | 第30-39页 |
| ·Encyclopedic, Actual Information | 第31-32页 |
| ·Mutually Manifested Physical Environment | 第32-34页 |
| ·Speakers'Nonverbal Behaviors | 第34-36页 |
| ·Addressee's Background Knowledge of Addresser's Biographical Data | 第36-37页 |
| ·Mutual Knowledge | 第37页 |
| ·Previous Utterances in Conversation | 第37-38页 |
| ·Linguistics Cues | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39页 |
| ·Analysis on Criterion of Optimal Accessibility to Verbal Irony | 第39-40页 |
| ·Expounding of Three Prototypical Conditions in Criterion of Optimal Accessibility | 第40-47页 |
| ·Fast Identification of Dissociation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Slow Identification of Dissociation | 第42-44页 |
| ·Non-Existent Identification of Dissociation | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis on Poetic Effects in Echoic Irony in The Four Million | 第47-52页 |
| ·Satirical Humorous Effect | 第47-48页 |
| ·Joyous and Cordial Effect | 第48-50页 |
| ·Vigilant Effect | 第50-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-53页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第53-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-57页 |
| 作者简介 | 第57页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间研究成果 | 第57-58页 |
