| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-21页 |
| ·Humor, and a Working Definition of Humor | 第14-19页 |
| ·Humor-a Working Definition | 第14-18页 |
| ·Female-vs-Male Humor (FvMH) | 第18-19页 |
| ·Language Data and Theoretical Basis | 第19-20页 |
| ·FvMh Data | 第19页 |
| ·Theories | 第19-20页 |
| ·Organizational Structure of the Thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review-with a Focus on the Incongruity Theory of Humor | 第21-40页 |
| ·Important Theories of Laughter and Humor | 第21-27页 |
| ·On Laughter's Socio-Ethical Implications | 第21-23页 |
| ·On Laughter as Coming from Pleasurable Self-Recognition | 第23-24页 |
| ·On Laughter as Coming from Mental Relief | 第24页 |
| ·On Laughter at Incongruity | 第24-25页 |
| ·On Laughter of Human and Social Nature | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Incongruity Theory of Humor, Focused Discussion and Comments | 第27-40页 |
| ·Incongruities against Shared Knowledge | 第29-30页 |
| ·Reestablishment of Textual Coherence from the Incongruity | 第30-33页 |
| ·Incongruities of High Interpretability and Enjoyability | 第33-36页 |
| ·Incongruities and Human Interest | 第36-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Three Semantic Manifestations of Incongruity in FvMH | 第40-60页 |
| ·Stylistic Deviation: the Linguistic Means of Humorous Incongruity | 第40-41页 |
| ·Semantic Manifestations of Incongruity in FvMH | 第41-58页 |
| ·Phonologically-driven Semantic Incongruity in FvMH | 第42-45页 |
| ·Lexically-driven Semantic Incongruity in FvMH | 第45-53页 |
| ·Exploitation of Puns | 第45-47页 |
| ·Exploitation of Semantic Nuances | 第47-49页 |
| ·Exploitation of Ambiguous Reference | 第49-51页 |
| ·Other Lexical Means Toward Incongruity | 第51-53页 |
| ·Syntactically-driven Semantic Incongruity in FvMH | 第53-58页 |
| ·Fore-grounded Contrastive Key Lexical Items in a Paired Sentence Sequence | 第53-56页 |
| ·Incongruous Parodies | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Four Pragmatic and Socio-Cultural Manifestations of Incongruity in FvMH | 第60-86页 |
| ·Pragmatic Deviation in Verbal Humor | 第60-62页 |
| ·Major Pragmatic Manifestations of Incongruity in FvMH | 第62-74页 |
| ·Incongruity through Flouts of the Quantity Maxim | 第62-65页 |
| ·Incongruity through Flouts of the Quality Maxim | 第65-67页 |
| ·Incongruity through Flouts of the Relation Maxim | 第67-70页 |
| ·Incongruity through Flouts of the Manner Maxim | 第70页 |
| ·Situational Incongruity Against Common Knowledge | 第70-73页 |
| ·Incongruity from Canceled Implicatures | 第73-74页 |
| ·Socio-Cultural Manifestations of Incongruity in FvMH | 第74-84页 |
| ·About Women-from Men's Angle | 第75-78页 |
| ·About Men-from Women's Angle | 第78-81页 |
| ·About Men and Women-Behavioral Comparison | 第81-84页 |
| ·Summary | 第84-86页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第86-96页 |
| ·A General Summary | 第86-88页 |
| ·Significance of FvMH Studies and Possible Contributions | 第88-94页 |
| ·FvMH and Women vs. Men in Terms of Social Realities, and the General Significance of Humor Studies | 第89-93页 |
| ·Possible Contributions of the Present Study | 第93-94页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggested Effort | 第94-96页 |
| Bibliography | 第96-99页 |
