| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第10页 |
| ·Objectives of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-28页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12页 |
| ·Literature Review on the Study of Metonymy | 第12-21页 |
| ·Foreign Researches on Metonymy | 第12-20页 |
| ·Domestic Researches on Metonymy | 第20-21页 |
| ·Previous Accounts on Pragmatic Inference | 第21-27页 |
| ·Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第21-22页 |
| ·Levinson's Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Mechanism | 第22-24页 |
| ·Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory | 第24-26页 |
| ·Inadequacies of Pragmatic Inference Theories | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretic Foundations | 第28-37页 |
| ·Introduction | 第28页 |
| ·Theoretic Basis of Speech Act Metonymy | 第28-31页 |
| ·The Impact of Speech Act Theory on Speech Act Metonymy | 第28-29页 |
| ·Lakoff's Concept of Background Condition | 第29-31页 |
| ·Panther and Thornburg's View towards Metonymy | 第31-35页 |
| ·Panther and Thornburg's View on the Nature of Metonymy | 第31-33页 |
| ·Panther and Thornburg's Classification of Metonymy | 第33-35页 |
| ·Methodology and Database | 第35-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four The Analysis of Pragmatic Inference from the Perspective of SpeechAct Metonymy Theory | 第37-58页 |
| ·Introduction | 第37页 |
| ·Speech Act Metonymies | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Scenario Approach to Metonymy | 第37-39页 |
| ·Types of Speech Act Metonymies | 第39-40页 |
| ·Pragmatic Inference Process and its Application | 第40-48页 |
| ·Metonymic Link Force and Pragmatic Inference | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Applications of Pragmatic Inference | 第43-48页 |
| ·Advantages of Speech Act Metonymy over Previous Pragmatic Theories | 第48-49页 |
| ·Developments of Speech Act Metonymy Theory | 第49-56页 |
| ·Disadvantages of Panther and Thornburg's Theory | 第49-50页 |
| ·Improvement from the Perspective of Tllocutionary ICMs and Pragmatic Parameters | 第50-51页 |
| ·Improvement from the Perspective of Blended Space Theory | 第51-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| ·Summary of the Thesis | 第58页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Thesis | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Future Study | 第59-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64-65页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的学术论文 | 第65页 |
