| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-19页 |
| 0.1 Research Background | 第13-15页 |
| 0.2 Research Objective and Significance | 第15-16页 |
| 0.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第19-37页 |
| 1.1 Humor | 第19-23页 |
| 1.1.1 Definitions of Humor | 第19-22页 |
| 1.1.2 Classifications of Humor | 第22-23页 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies about Humor | 第23-30页 |
| 1.2.1 From the Perspective of Pragmatics | 第24-26页 |
| 1.2.2 From the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics | 第26-29页 |
| 1.2.3 From Other Perspectives | 第29-30页 |
| 1.3 Previous Studies about Situation Comedies and Ipartment | 第30-34页 |
| 1.3.1 Previous Studies about Situation Comedies | 第31-33页 |
| 1.3.2 Previous Studies about Ipartment | 第33-34页 |
| 1.4 Summary | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation | 第37-53页 |
| 2.1 Semantic Frane | 第37-46页 |
| 2.1.1 Concept of Frame | 第38-40页 |
| 2.1.2 Elements of Frame | 第40-43页 |
| 2.1.3 Types of Frame | 第43-46页 |
| 2.2 Frame-Shifting | 第46-51页 |
| 2.2.1 Background and Context | 第47-49页 |
| 2.2.2 Re-interpretation | 第49-51页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Three Ipartment and Classification of Its Verbal Humor from Cognitive Frames | 第53-69页 |
| 3.1 An Introduction to Ipartmect | 第53-55页 |
| 3.2 Classification of Verbal Humor in Ipartmect from Cognitive frames | 第55-66页 |
| 3.2.1 Verbal Humor of Linguistic Frame | 第56-60页 |
| 3.2.2 Verbal Humor of Formal Frame | 第60-63页 |
| 3.2.3 Verbal Humor of Cultual Frame | 第63-66页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Four Construction of Frames and Frame-shifting in Generation and Interpretation of Verbal Humor in Ipartment | 第69-91页 |
| 4.1 Generation and Interpretationl of Verbal Humor of Linguistic Frame | 第70-77页 |
| 4.1.1 Construction of Linguistic Frame | 第71-74页 |
| 4.1.2 Frame-shifting in Verbal Humor of Linguistic Frame | 第74-77页 |
| 4.2 Generation and Interpretation of Verbal Humor of Formal Frame | 第77-82页 |
| 4.2.1 Construction of Formal Frame | 第77-79页 |
| 4.2.2 Frame-shifting in Verbal Humor of Formal Frame | 第79-82页 |
| 4.3 Generation and Interpretation of Verbal Humor of Cultural Frame | 第82-89页 |
| 4.3.1 Construction of Cultural Frame | 第83-86页 |
| 4.3.2 Frame-shifting in Verbal Humor of Cultural Frame | 第86-89页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第89-91页 |
| Chapter Five Requirements to Produce Verbal Humor in Ipartment and the inspiration | 第91-103页 |
| 5.1 Requirements to Produce Verbal Humor in Ipartment | 第92-97页 |
| 5.1.1 A Good State of Mind | 第92-93页 |
| 5.1.2 Rich Encyclopedic Knowledge Network | 第93-96页 |
| 5.1.3 Different Perspective of Observing Situations | 第96-97页 |
| 5.2 Inspiration from Verbal Humor in Ipartment | 第97-100页 |
| 5.2.1 Keeping a Humorous Mindset | 第98页 |
| 5.2.2 Enriching Encyclopedic Knowledge Network | 第98-99页 |
| 5.2.3 Breaking the Routine Thinking and Creative | 第99-100页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第100-103页 |
| Conclusion | 第103-109页 |
| 1. Major Findings | 第103-106页 |
| 2. Research Significanee | 第106-107页 |
| 3. Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第107-109页 |
| Bibliography | 第109-115页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第115-117页 |
