| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-9页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| ·The significance and meanings of the study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第10-11页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第11-21页 |
| ·Definitions of humor | 第11-12页 |
| ·Humor and laughter | 第11-12页 |
| ·Social-psychological theories of humor | 第12-14页 |
| ·Relief theories | 第12-13页 |
| ·Superiority theories | 第13页 |
| ·Incongruity theories | 第13-14页 |
| ·Linguistic theories of humor | 第14-15页 |
| ·Semantic Script Theory of humor | 第14页 |
| ·General Theory of verbal humor | 第14-15页 |
| ·Other prevalent approaches to humor | 第15-19页 |
| ·Cooperative Principles | 第15-17页 |
| ·Politeness Principles | 第17-18页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第18-19页 |
| ·Research trends at home and abroad | 第19-21页 |
| 3. The Presupposition Theory | 第21-31页 |
| ·A brief review of the presupposition theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Definitions of the pragmatic presupposition | 第22-23页 |
| ·Presupposition and Entailment | 第23-25页 |
| ·Presupposition and Conversational Implicature | 第25页 |
| ·The Characteristic of the Presupposition | 第25-31页 |
| ·Appropriateness, mutual knowledge and cancelability | 第25-29页 |
| ·Unidirectionality, subjectivity and latency | 第29-31页 |
| 4. Introduction to the Ventriloquism | 第31-35页 |
| ·Ventriloquism | 第31页 |
| ·Jeff and his puppets | 第31-32页 |
| ·The corpus in this thesis | 第32-35页 |
| 5. The Case Study | 第35-53页 |
| ·The case study based on the False Presuppositions | 第35-43页 |
| ·False presuppositions caused by objective reasons | 第35-36页 |
| ·False presuppositions caused by subjective reasons | 第36-40页 |
| ·Combining the features of presupposition to discuss the cases of False Presupposition | 第40-43页 |
| ·The case study based on the Cultural Presuppositions | 第43-48页 |
| ·Deviations on the linguistic level | 第43-44页 |
| ·Deviation from religious culture | 第44-46页 |
| ·Deviation from customs | 第46-47页 |
| ·Combining the features of presupposition to analyze the cultural presuppositions | 第47-48页 |
| ·The case study based on the cancelability of the presupposition | 第48-53页 |
| ·Linguistic factors leading to the cancelability | 第48-50页 |
| ·Non-linguistic factors | 第50-53页 |
| 6. Conclusions | 第53-55页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第55-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-59页 |
