声明
ABSTRACT
摘要
Acknowledgement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Research Objective
1.2 Research Methodology
1.3 Significance of the Research
1.4 Thesis Organization
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Criticism Review on Jane Austen and Sense and Sensibility
2.2 Irony as One of the Most Outstanding Features in Sense and Sensibility
2.3 Definition and Classification of Irony
Chapter Three A LITERARY PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO APPRECIATING IRONY
3.1 A Brief Generalization on Literary Pragmatics
3.1.1 The Communication between Author and Readers
3.1.2 Macro-Speech Acts and Micro-Speech Acts
3.2 Austin and Searle’s Speech Act Theory(SAT) as a Core Theory of LP
3.2.1 Austin’s Three Kinds of Speech Acts
3.2.2 Felicity Conditions
3.2.3 Searle’s Revision of Austin’s SAT
3.3 Direct Speech Act and Indirect Speech Act
3.4 Understanding Irony under the Framework of SAT
3.4.1 Irony and Indirect Speech Act
3.4.2 Irony and Felicity Conditions
3.4.3 Irony and Illocutionary Force
3.4.4 Irony and Perlocutionary Act
Chapter Four AN ANALYSIS OF IRONY IN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY BY APPLYING AUSTIN AND SEARLE’S SAT
4.1 A Brief Introduction to the Plot Development in Sense and Sensibility
4.2 Macro Speech Acts
4.2.1 Macro Literal Irony
4.2.2 Macro Structural Irony
4.3 Micro Irony
4.3.1 Assertive irony
4.3.2 Directive Irony
4.3.3 Commissive Irony
4.3.4 Expressive Irony
4.3.5 Declarative Irony
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography