| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 内容提要 | 第5-6页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter 2 An Overview of Chinese Cross Talk | 第8-15页 |
| ·A historical survey of Chinese cross talk | 第8-10页 |
| ·Traditional Cross talk and its value | 第8-9页 |
| ·Evolvement after the Liberation | 第9-10页 |
| ·Package-the source of humor in cross talk | 第10-13页 |
| ·The contents of Package | 第11页 |
| ·The types of package | 第11-12页 |
| ·The means of constructing a package | 第12-13页 |
| ·The research focus of this thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 3 Relevance Theory and Its Variants | 第15-23页 |
| ·Sperber&Wilson’s RT-a comprehensive perspective | 第15-18页 |
| ·The concept of relevance in RT and the principle of Relevance | 第15-16页 |
| ·The advantages of RT | 第16-17页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic comprehension procedure | 第17-18页 |
| ·Entertainment of incongruity - a relevance-theoretic account | 第18-20页 |
| ·Yus’s MGI-SCI model-an integrative perspective | 第20-22页 |
| ·Summary | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter 4 Approaching Cross Talk from the Perspective of Relevance | 第23-47页 |
| ·General application of RT | 第23-37页 |
| ·Extraction of logical form | 第24-25页 |
| ·The recovery of explicature | 第25-33页 |
| ·Disambiguity | 第26-29页 |
| ·Reference assignment | 第29-30页 |
| ·Free enrichment | 第30-33页 |
| ·The discovery of implicature | 第33-35页 |
| ·More on the appreciation of humor | 第35-37页 |
| ·A relevance-theoretic look at incongruity in cross talk | 第37-42页 |
| ·A look at humor in Yus's model | 第42-47页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| ·Major findings | 第47-48页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第48-49页 |
| References | 第49-51页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第51-64页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第64-68页 |
