| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| CONTENTS | 第9-11页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第11-12页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第13-19页 |
| ·The Target of the Present Research | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Rationale of the Research | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Objective of the Research | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第16-17页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE | 第19-33页 |
| ·Introduction | 第19-21页 |
| ·An Overview of Previous Relevant Studies | 第21-25页 |
| ·Process-oriented Studies of Utterance Interpretation | 第25-31页 |
| ·Xu's implicatures stereotypical reasoning model | 第26-28页 |
| ·Jaszczolt's notion of meaning merger representation | 第28-30页 |
| ·Brief summary | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Present Research | 第31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK | 第33-48页 |
| ·Introduction | 第33页 |
| ·The Delimitation of Utterance and Its Interpretation for the Research | 第33-37页 |
| ·The working definition of utterance | 第34-35页 |
| ·Notes on utterance interpretation and its related issues | 第35-37页 |
| ·A Discussion on the Foundations of the Conceptual Framework | 第37-41页 |
| ·Illumination from the previous studies | 第37-39页 |
| ·An overview on Verschueren's linguistic adaptability theory | 第39-41页 |
| ·A Description of the Current Conceptual Framework | 第41-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Four THE COGNITIVE PRAGMATIC PROCESS OF UTTERANCEINTERPRETATION | 第48-73页 |
| ·Introduction | 第48页 |
| ·Constraints on Utterance Interpretation | 第48-52页 |
| ·Linguistic constraint | 第49-50页 |
| ·Cognitive constraint | 第50-51页 |
| ·Pragma-cognitive constraint | 第51-52页 |
| ·Adaptability and Adaptation of Linguistic Choices | 第52-53页 |
| ·Utterance Interpretation:Intentional Explanation and Related Issues | 第53-56页 |
| ·Utterance Interpretation:An Adaptability-oriented Process | 第56-69页 |
| ·Identification of utterance-meaning sources | 第56-58页 |
| ·Processing of the truth-conditional contents and implicatures | 第58-67页 |
| ·Utterance interpretation:default interpretation | 第59-63页 |
| ·Utterance interpretation:conscious pragmatic inference | 第63-67页 |
| ·Contextual correlates and structural objects of adaptability | 第67-69页 |
| ·Heuristics for the Choice and Adaptability in Utterance Interpretation | 第69-71页 |
| ·A Tentative Adaptability-oriented Model of Utterance Interpretation | 第71-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 第73-78页 |
| ·Introduction | 第73页 |
| ·Brief Summaries of Major Findings | 第73-75页 |
| ·Implications | 第75-76页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Studies | 第76-78页 |
| REFERENCES | 第78-81页 |
