| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Meaning of Adjectives | 第17-21页 |
| ·Syntactic Subclassification of Adjectives | 第20-21页 |
| ·Semantic Subclassification of Adjectives | 第21页 |
| ·Pragmatic Subclassification of Adjectives | 第21页 |
| ·Major Views on Adjectives | 第21-29页 |
| ·The Simplistic View | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Functional View | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Free Variable View | 第24-29页 |
| Chapter Three Preliminaries:Theories of Lexical Pragmatics | 第29-34页 |
| ·Basic Concepts of Lexical Pragmatics | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Coercion View | 第29页 |
| ·The Radical Underspecification View | 第29-30页 |
| ·I-principle and Q-principle | 第30-31页 |
| ·Four Assumptions of Lexical Pragmatics | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Non-compositional | 第31页 |
| ·The Non-representational | 第31-32页 |
| ·Economy | 第32-33页 |
| ·Cancelability | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Four Pragmatic Enrichment and Adjectives | 第34-48页 |
| ·Defining Pragmatic Enrichment | 第34-35页 |
| ·Narrowing and the Meaning of Adjectives | 第35-40页 |
| ·Broadening and the Meaning of Adjectives | 第40-48页 |
| Chapter Five Pragmatic Anomaly. Lexical Blocking and Adjectives | 第48-52页 |
| ·Pragmatic Anomaly and the Meaning of Adjectives | 第48-50页 |
| ·Lexical Blocking and the Meaning of Adjectives | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第52-56页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第52-53页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations and Prospects for Further Research | 第54-56页 |
| References | 第56-59页 |
