| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第12页 |
| ·Methodology and Thesis Structure | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第15-26页 |
| ·A General Review of Humor | 第15-22页 |
| ·Definition of humor | 第15-17页 |
| ·Theories of humor | 第17-19页 |
| ·GTVH (General Theory of Verbal Humor) | 第19-22页 |
| ·A Review on the Translation of Humor | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Three THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第26-37页 |
| ·Key Concepts of Relevance Theory | 第26-30页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential communication | 第26-27页 |
| ·Context | 第27-28页 |
| ·Relevance and principle of relevance | 第28-30页 |
| ·Relevance Translation Theory | 第30-37页 |
| ·Translation as interlingual interpretive use | 第30-32页 |
| ·Direct translation and indirect translation | 第32-34页 |
| ·Double roles of translator | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter Four A RELEVANCE-THEORETICAL ACCOUNT OF HUMORTRANSLATION | 第37-46页 |
| ·Study of the Translatability of Humorous Dialogs in a Macro Sense | 第37-38页 |
| ·Study of the Translatability of Humorous Dialogs in a Micro Sense | 第38-43页 |
| ·Translatability concerning culture | 第39-41页 |
| ·Translatability concerning language | 第41-43页 |
| ·A Tentative Relevance Translation Theoretical Framework of Humor Translation in Movies | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter Five AN APPLICATION OF RELEVANCE TRANSLATION THEORYTO HUMOR TRANSLATION—A CASE STUDY IN MOVIES | 第46-64页 |
| ·Classifications of Humor in Movies | 第47-51页 |
| ·Language humor | 第47-49页 |
| ·Cultural humor | 第49-51页 |
| ·Constraints of Humor Translation in Movies | 第51-53页 |
| ·Spatial constraint | 第52-53页 |
| ·Temporal constraint | 第53页 |
| ·Strategies in Translating Humorous Dialogs into Chinese | 第53-63页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic direct translation | 第54-59页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic indirect translation | 第59-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter Six CONCLUSION | 第64-68页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Thesis | 第64-66页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第66-68页 |
| REFERENCES | 第68-69页 |
