acknowledgements
Chapter Ⅰ Introduction
1.1Purpose
1.2 Source material
1.3 Research method
1.4 Literature Review
1.4.1 Some semiotic approaches
1.4.2 Some linguistic approaches
1.4.3 Some pragmatic approaches
1.4.4 Conclusion
Chapter Ⅱ Relevance Theory and Communication
2.1 Communication and Inference
2.2Ostensive-inferential communication
2.3 Standards in communication
2.4 Relevance and Cognition
2.5 Implicature
2.6 Summary of Relevance Theory
Chapter Ⅲ Puns in advertising
3.1 Functions of Puns
3.2 Puns in Advertising
3.3 Some Explanations of Puns
Chapter Ⅳ Puns, Ambiguity and Relevance Theory
4.1 Puns and Ambiguity
4.2 Puns as a Rhetorical Figure
4.3 Puns and Relevance Theory
Chapter Ⅴ Four Types of Puns
5.1 Non sense puns
5.2 Puns and Context
5.3 Puns and Sexual Innuendo
5.4 Puns with two communicated meanings
Conclusion
Discussion
Limitations
Appendix: Examples of puns
Bibliography