本书主要研究中文会话语境中冒犯性幽默与非冒犯性幽默的语义、语用及交际特征。幽默作为人类交际活动中一种复杂的语言活动，其话语具有隐含性、组合性、情感评价性、民族性、模糊性等语用和语义特征。幽默的表达和理解受语用主体和语用客体条件的制约，幽默感和语境是重要的主客体条件。本书以热门情景喜剧《爱情公寓》为语料，深入探讨了情景喜剧中多重会话者参与框架下冒犯性幽默与非冒犯性幽默的定义、分类及分析路径等，从说话者与听话者的交际意图与反应两个方面剖析了情景喜剧语境中，冒犯性幽默是如何在不同交际层面带来幽默与冒犯两种截然不同的交际效果的，以及非冒犯性幽默是如何在不同交际层面产生不同的幽默效果的。本书的研究结果对于中文幽默语言的分析、情景喜剧的研究，以及中文礼貌与不礼貌话语的语用学研究具有一定的启发意义。

曹莹，武汉轻工大学外国语学院讲师，硕士生导师，西悉尼大学语言学博士，澳大拉西亚幽默研究学会AHSN成员，在European Journal of Humour Research发表论文2篇，在《翻译与文化》发表论文1篇，与多位国际知名学者共同编著Routledge Studies on Asia in the World，主持或者作为成员参与省、校级研究项目多项。多次参加幽默与语言学国际会议，2017年在加拿大魁北克大学荣获国际幽默协会ISHS颁布的年度“DANNYS”奖学金和优秀青年学者称号。

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The Scope of This Book
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 A Note on the Transcription 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 Working 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 joking. 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 goes back 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