| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第8-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-24页 |
| ·The object of the research | 第12-14页 |
| ·The rationale of the study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Problems with existing studies | 第16-17页 |
| ·Notes on related terms | 第17-19页 |
| ·The objectives of the study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第20-22页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Relevant Literature | 第24-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第24页 |
| ·Terminological issue | 第24-26页 |
| ·An overview of related studies | 第26-48页 |
| ·Pragmatic studies of misunderstanding | 第26-35页 |
| ·Related studies of deliberate misinterpretation | 第35-48页 |
| ·Achievements and limitations of the past researches | 第48-49页 |
| ·The perspective of the present study | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Three A Description of the Conceptual Framework | 第51-86页 |
| ·Introduction | 第51页 |
| ·The delimitation of deliberate misinterpretation | 第51-62页 |
| ·Working definition of deliberate misinterpretation | 第51-55页 |
| ·Properties of process of deliberate misinterpretation | 第55-56页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation vs. accidental misunderstanding | 第56-57页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation vs. digression | 第57-58页 |
| ·DMI/Deliberate non-understanding vs. faked non-understanding | 第58-60页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation vs. misunderstanding | 第60-62页 |
| ·A discussion of the theoretical background of the framework | 第62-76页 |
| ·Linguistic adaptation theory | 第62-65页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第65-73页 |
| ·Face theory and Politeness | 第73-76页 |
| ·The characterization of the conceptual framework | 第76-83页 |
| ·Cognitive Basis of deliberate misinterpretation | 第76-78页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation as a process of choice making | 第78-79页 |
| ·Communicative needs | 第79-81页 |
| ·Contextual correlates of adaptability | 第81-82页 |
| ·Interactional natures | 第82-83页 |
| ·Summary | 第83-86页 |
| Chapter Four Prerequisites to Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第86-115页 |
| ·Introduction | 第86页 |
| ·Mutuality | 第86-93页 |
| ·Mutuality of logical information | 第88-90页 |
| ·Mutuality of encyclopeadic information | 第90-91页 |
| ·Mutuality of linguistic information | 第91-92页 |
| ·Mutuality of Immediate context | 第92-93页 |
| ·Relevance as a generalized communicative principle | 第93-96页 |
| ·Triggers of deliberate misinterpretation | 第96-113页 |
| ·Minimal information provided by S1 | 第98-101页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of S1's conversational utterance | 第101-113页 |
| ·Summary | 第113-115页 |
| Chapter Five Means of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第115-133页 |
| ·Introduction | 第115-116页 |
| ·Deliberately violating the Law of Identity | 第116-127页 |
| ·Deliberately violating the Law of Identity in concept | 第117-122页 |
| ·Deliberately violating the Law of Identity in judgment | 第122-127页 |
| ·Deliberately ignoring the context | 第127-132页 |
| ·Disregarding the speech situation | 第128-129页 |
| ·Telling a truism | 第129-130页 |
| ·Being overliteral | 第130-132页 |
| ·Summary | 第132-133页 |
| Chapter Six Functioning of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第133-167页 |
| ·Introduction | 第133-134页 |
| ·Contextual correlates affecting the choice of DMI | 第134-144页 |
| ·DMI as a means of adaptation to the social world | 第135-140页 |
| ·DMI as a means of adaptation to the mental world | 第140-144页 |
| ·Communicative functions of DMI | 第144-161页 |
| ·Improving interpersonal relationship | 第145-152页 |
| ·Manipulating information | 第152-156页 |
| ·Creating special communicative effects | 第156-161页 |
| ·Properties of the functioning of DMI | 第161-165页 |
| ·Discrepancy | 第162-163页 |
| ·Implicitness | 第163-165页 |
| ·Summary | 第165-167页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第167-174页 |
| ·Introduction | 第167页 |
| ·Major findings | 第167-170页 |
| ·Implications | 第170-172页 |
| ·Limitations | 第172页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第172-174页 |
| Bibliography | 第174-180页 |
