【目录】
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The Scope of This Book
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 A Note on the Tranion Conventions
1.4 A Note on the Terminology Used
1.5 The Structure of This Book
Chapter 2 Conversational Humour: Jocular Verbal Behaviours
2.1 Definitions of Humour
2.2 Theories of Humour
2.3 Linguistic Approaches to Humour
2.4 Humour and Laughter
2.5 Failed Humour
2.6 Humour in Chinese
Chapter 3 Meanwhile in the World of Face and (Im) Politeness
3.1 (Im) Politeness Theory
3.2 Face in (Im) Politeness Theories
3.3 Face and (Ira)Politeness in Chinese
3.4 The Interdependence of Humour and (Im) politeness
3.5 Wo Definitions of Aggressive Humour and Non-aggressive Humour
Chapter 4 A Chinese Siteom: Ipartment
4.1 Sitcoms: The Discourse of Fictional Conversations
4.2 An Overview of Chinese Sitcoms
4.3 Corpus
Chapter 5 An Analytical Framework of Humour in Sitcom Discourse
5.1 A Three-stages Model
5.2 Statistical Methods
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6 Risky Laughter: Performing Humour in an Aggressive Manner
6.1 Types of Humour in Ipartment
6 2 "I was j. You didn't take it personally, right?" Aggressive Humour in Ipartment
6.3 Summary "
6.4 Discussion "
Chapter 7 Is Humour All Aggressive? Performing Humour in a Non-aggressive Manner
7.1 "My depression goeack to when I was eight": Non-aggressive Humour in Ipartment
7.2 Humour at CL1 Only: Failed Humour at CL2
7.3 Humour at CL1 Only: No Humour at CL2
7.4 Humour at Both CL1 and CL2: Unintended Humour
7.5 Humour at Both CL1 and CL2: Successful Humour
7.6 Summary
Chapter 8 Conclusion
8.1 Summary of Major Findings
8.2 Contributions and Implications
8.3 Limitations and Future Studies
8.4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgement
1.1 The Scope of This Book
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 A Note on the Tranion Conventions
1.4 A Note on the Terminology Used
1.5 The Structure of This Book
Chapter 2 Conversational Humour: Jocular Verbal Behaviours
2.1 Definitions of Humour
2.2 Theories of Humour
2.3 Linguistic Approaches to Humour
2.4 Humour and Laughter
2.5 Failed Humour
2.6 Humour in Chinese
Chapter 3 Meanwhile in the World of Face and (Im) Politeness
3.1 (Im) Politeness Theory
3.2 Face in (Im) Politeness Theories
3.3 Face and (Ira)Politeness in Chinese
3.4 The Interdependence of Humour and (Im) politeness
3.5 Wo Definitions of Aggressive Humour and Non-aggressive Humour
Chapter 4 A Chinese Siteom: Ipartment
4.1 Sitcoms: The Discourse of Fictional Conversations
4.2 An Overview of Chinese Sitcoms
4.3 Corpus
Chapter 5 An Analytical Framework of Humour in Sitcom Discourse
5.1 A Three-stages Model
5.2 Statistical Methods
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6 Risky Laughter: Performing Humour in an Aggressive Manner
6.1 Types of Humour in Ipartment
6 2 "I was j. You didn't take it personally, right?" Aggressive Humour in Ipartment
6.3 Summary "
6.4 Discussion "
Chapter 7 Is Humour All Aggressive? Performing Humour in a Non-aggressive Manner
7.1 "My depression goeack to when I was eight": Non-aggressive Humour in Ipartment
7.2 Humour at CL1 Only: Failed Humour at CL2
7.3 Humour at CL1 Only: No Humour at CL2
7.4 Humour at Both CL1 and CL2: Unintended Humour
7.5 Humour at Both CL1 and CL2: Successful Humour
7.6 Summary
Chapter 8 Conclusion
8.1 Summary of Major Findings
8.2 Contributions and Implications
8.3 Limitations and Future Studies
8.4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgement
