| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-9页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第9-15页 |
| List of Figures | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第16-21页 |
| ·An overview of the study of puns in Chinese | 第16-17页 |
| ·Motives of the study | 第17页 |
| ·Main theory used in the paper | 第17-18页 |
| ·Purpose of the paper | 第18页 |
| ·Organization of the paper | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第21-38页 |
| ·Overview | 第21页 |
| ·The Rhetorical approach of pun | 第21-26页 |
| ·On pun | 第21-23页 |
| ·The motivations of pun | 第23-26页 |
| ·Pun based on people’s mental association | 第23-24页 |
| ·Pun based on the pronunciation of Chinese character | 第24-25页 |
| ·Pun based on the form of Chinese character | 第25-26页 |
| ·Pun based on the meaning of Chinese character | 第26页 |
| ·The Semantic approach of pun | 第26-29页 |
| ·Ferdinand de Saussure and his theory | 第26-27页 |
| ·The semantic motivation of pun based on the theory of Ferdinand de Saussure | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Cognitive approach of pun | 第29-34页 |
| ·The Blending Spaces theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Relevance theory | 第32-34页 |
| ·The pragmatic approach of pun | 第34-37页 |
| ·The Clarity Principle and the Economy Principle | 第34-36页 |
| ·The CI theory | 第36-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter III Theoretical Framework | 第38-47页 |
| ·Overview | 第38页 |
| ·A description of the theoretical framework | 第38-46页 |
| ·The brief history of H. P. Grice’s the CI theory | 第38-39页 |
| ·The related concepts and the main contents of the CI theory | 第39-46页 |
| ·Natural meaning and non-natural meaning | 第39-41页 |
| ·Main contents of the CI theory | 第41-46页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle | 第42-44页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter IV The Conversational Implicature of Puns in Chinese | 第47-75页 |
| ·Overview. | 第47页 |
| ·Puns in Chinese and context | 第47-50页 |
| ·H. P. Grice’s the definition of CI and the inference of CI | 第50-52页 |
| ·The brief rehash of the CP and Grice’s three groups of CI | 第52-53页 |
| ·The CI of pun and its inferences | 第53-73页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by observing maxims | 第53-54页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by clashing of two maxims | 第54-55页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by violating the maxims | 第55-73页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by flouting the maxim of quantity | 第55-59页 |
| ·A flouting of the first subordinate maxim of quantity | 第55-57页 |
| ·A flouting of the second subordinate maxim of quantity | 第57-59页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by flouting the maxim of quality | 第59-64页 |
| ·A flouting of the first subordinate maxim of quality | 第59-63页 |
| ·A flouting of the second subordinate maxim of quality | 第63-64页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by flouting the maxim of relation | 第64-66页 |
| ·The CI of pun inferred by flouting the maxim of manner | 第66-73页 |
| ·A flouting of the first subordinate maxim of manner | 第66-69页 |
| ·A flouting of the second subordinate maxim of manner | 第69-73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-75页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion | 第75-81页 |
| ·Overview | 第75页 |
| ·The pragmatic mechanism of puns in Chinese | 第75-76页 |
| ·Effectively use of pun in communication | 第76-77页 |
| ·Discussions about the theory used in the paper | 第77-79页 |
| ·Suggestion for the further research | 第79-80页 |
| ·Summary | 第80-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-84页 |
