| Acknowledgments | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·Research Background | 第13-16页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第16页 |
| ·Arrangement of the Structure | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-31页 |
| ·The Foreign Studies of Humor | 第18-24页 |
| ·The Classical Foreign Studies of Humor | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Modern Foreign Studies of Humor | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Domestic Research on Humor | 第24-30页 |
| ·The ancient Domestic Research on Humor | 第25页 |
| ·The Modern Domestic Research on Humor | 第25-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three Relevance Theory | 第31-41页 |
| ·Overview of Relevance Theory | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Basic Concepts of Relevance Theory | 第33-41页 |
| ·The Informative Intention and the Communicative Intention | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Maximal Relevance and the Optimal Relevance | 第34-36页 |
| ·Cognitive Environments | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Processing Efforts | 第38-39页 |
| ·Ostensive-Inferential Mode | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Four Relevance Theory and Humorous Dialogue Analysis | 第41-63页 |
| ·Humor Produced by the Informative Intention and the Communicative Intention | 第41-46页 |
| ·Humor Produced when the Informative Intention and the Communicative Intention are Different | 第42-44页 |
| ·Humor Produced when the Informative Intention and the Communicative Intention are consistent | 第44-46页 |
| ·Humor Produced by the Maximal Relevance and the Optimal Relevance | 第46-51页 |
| ·Humor produced by the difference between the maximal relevance and the optimal relevance | 第47-49页 |
| ·Humor Produced by the violation of the Maximal Relevance and the Optimal Relevance | 第49-51页 |
| ·Cognitive Context and Humor Analysis | 第51-57页 |
| ·Logical information and humor analysis | 第51-53页 |
| ·Encyclopedic information and humor analysis | 第53-55页 |
| ·Lexical information and humor analysis | 第55-57页 |
| ·Processing Efforts and Humor Analysis | 第57-60页 |
| ·Extra Processing Efforts and Humor Analysis | 第57-58页 |
| ·Insufficient Processing Efforts and Humor Analysis | 第58-60页 |
| ·Ostensive -Inferential Mode and Humor Analysis | 第60-63页 |
| ·Humor produced by deliberate misunderstanding | 第60-61页 |
| ·Humor produced by ignorance | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| ·The Main Findings of the Study | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Implications of the Study | 第64-65页 |
| ·The Deifciencies of the Study and Future ResearchDirections | 第65-67页 |
| References | 第67-71页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表论文目录 | 第71页 |
