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英文文摘
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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Definition and classification of irony
1.2 0bjectives of the study
1.3 Significance of the study
1.3.1 Theoretical significance
1.3.2 The practical significance
1.4 Data-collection and methodology
1.5 0rganization of the study
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 The Rhetorical Approach
2.2 The Psycholinguistie Approach
2.2.1 Gibb's Direct Access view
2.2.2 Giora's Graded Salience Hypothesis
2.3 Traditional Pragmatic Approach
2.3.1 Grice's view of verbal irony
2.3.2 Leech's view of verbal irony
2.4 Pragma-Cognitive Approach
2.4.1 Sperber and Wilson's Echoic Mention Theory
2.4.2 Clark and Gerrig's Pretense Theory
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Theoretical background
3.1.1 The main assumptions of the cognitive linguistics
3.1.2 Gestalt theory
3.1.3 Mental model
3.1.4 Stereotypical Relation
3.1.5 Two Dimensions of Proximity and Similarity
3.2 A Unified Theoretical Framework
3.2.1 The Hypothesis of MM-based Theory
3.2.2 Explicit Expression-Implicit Expression Inference
3.2.3 Autonomy-Dependence Alignment
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4 Definition and Taxonomy of irony revisited
4.1 Defmition of Irony Revisited
4.2 Classification of Irony Revisited
4.3 Pragmatic Functions of Irony in Social and Mental World
4.3.1 Criticism
4.3.2 Politeness
4.3.3 Humor
4.3.4 Intimacy
4.4 The Role of Cognitive Environment
4.4.1 Mutual Knowledge
4.4.2 Context
4.5 Irony as a Pragma-Cognitive phenomenon
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 Underlying Mechanism of the Use of Irony
5.1 Positive-negative continuum of proximity
5.2 The production of irony
5.2.1 Process of production of irony
5.2.2 Analysis of some examples
5.3 The interpretation of irony
5.3.1 Process of interpretation of irony
5.3.2 Analysis of some examples
5.4 The socio-cultural influences on the use of irony
5.4.1 Social and cultural influences on nonliteral language use
5.4.2 Socio-cultural variables on irony use
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Summary of the thesis
6.2 Major findings and conclusions
6.3 Limitations and suggestions for further research
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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