| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 2 An Overview of Studies in Pragmatic Negation | 第11-22页 |
| ·Negation—from Semantic Ambiguity to Pragmatic Ambiguity | 第11-12页 |
| ·Metalinguistic Negation, “Pragmatic Negation”and Implicature Negation | 第12-16页 |
| ·Broadening of pragmatic negation | 第16-17页 |
| ·Limitations of the Pragmatic Negation Studies | 第17-22页 |
| Chapter 3 The Notion of Indirect Pragmatic Negation | 第22-25页 |
| ·Defining Indirect Pragmatic Negation | 第22页 |
| ·Status of Indirect Pragmatic Negation | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter 4 Types of Indirect Pragmatic Negation | 第25-31页 |
| ·Indirect Pragmatic Negation as refusal to do actions required | 第25-26页 |
| ·Indirect Pragmatic Negation as denial of false propositions | 第26-31页 |
| Chapter 5 Indirect pragmatic negation and its conventions of use | 第31-39页 |
| ·DO NOT refuse unless you have reasons | 第31-34页 |
| ·DO NOT deny unless you have counter evidence | 第34-36页 |
| ·DO NOT deny a fact as a whole unless you agree about the asserted part | 第36-37页 |
| ·DO NOT apply irony unless you deny an obvious falsity | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第39-42页 |
| ·Key points of this study | 第39-40页 |
| ·Limitations of this study | 第40-42页 |
| Bibliography | 第42-43页 |
