| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·Origin of Irony | 第13页 |
| ·Definition of Irony | 第13-14页 |
| ·Classification of Irony | 第14-15页 |
| ·Information Transmission | 第15-17页 |
| ·Praise-by-Blame | 第16页 |
| ·Blame-by-Praise | 第16-17页 |
| ·Previous Researches on English Irony | 第17-21页 |
| ·Researches abroad | 第17-19页 |
| ·Rhetoric point of view | 第17-18页 |
| ·Linguistic points of view | 第18-19页 |
| ·Domestic Researches | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第21-33页 |
| ·The Conceptual Integration Theory | 第21-25页 |
| ·The Building of the Mental Space | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Mapping of Mental Spaces | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Blending of the Mental Space | 第24-25页 |
| ·Professor Wang Wenbin's View | 第25-26页 |
| ·Prominence View in Cognitive Linguistics | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Prominence View | 第27页 |
| ·Application of the Prominence View | 第27-28页 |
| ·Giora's Graded Salience Hypothesis (GSH) | 第28-30页 |
| ·Content of the Graded Salience Hypothesis | 第28-29页 |
| ·Experiment Discussion and the Application | 第29-30页 |
| ·Subjectivity | 第30-33页 |
| ·Subjectivity and Inter-subjectivity | 第30-32页 |
| ·Subjectivity and Self-negotiation | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Four Self-negotiation and Cognitive Prominence inMeaning Construction of English Irony | 第33-43页 |
| ·Cognitive Prominence on Meaning Construction In English Irony | 第33-37页 |
| ·Relevant Relation between the literal meaning and the implied meaning | 第33-34页 |
| ·Contradictory Relation between the literal meaning and the implied meaning | 第34-37页 |
| ·Self-negotiation | 第37-43页 |
| ·Prerequisites of the interlocutors for self-negotiation | 第37-41页 |
| ·Speaker's self-negotiation | 第37-39页 |
| ·Hearer's self-negotiation | 第39-41页 |
| ·Subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in self-negotiation | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Five Meaning Construction Process of English Irony | 第43-56页 |
| ·Cognitive Model in Meaning Construction | 第43-52页 |
| ·Building of the Mental Spaces in Meaning Construction | 第43-45页 |
| ·Mapping of the Mental Spaces in Meaning Construction | 第45-46页 |
| ·Space Access in Meaning Construction | 第46-47页 |
| ·Space Conflict in Meaning Construction | 第47-49页 |
| ·Space Transition in Meaning Construction | 第49页 |
| ·Space Confirmation in Meaning Construction | 第49-52页 |
| ·Inference in the Self-negotiation | 第52-54页 |
| ·Cognitive Prominence from the Self-negotiation Process | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-62页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第62页 |
