| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-9页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第9-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| 1． Literature Review | 第18-31页 |
| 1．1 Different Approaches to Word Meaning | 第18-27页 |
| 1．1．1 Meaning is Definition | 第18-21页 |
| 1．1．2Meaning is Reference | 第21-27页 |
| 1． 2Lexicon, semantics and pragmatics | 第27-31页 |
| 2． Systematic investigation of pragmatic meanings of words in utterances | 第31-55页 |
| 2．1 Basic Terms Concerned with this Thesis | 第32-42页 |
| 2．1．1 what is a Word | 第32-33页 |
| 2．1．2The Distinction between Sentence Meaning And Utterance Meaning | 第33-35页 |
| 2．1．3 The Introduction of Relevance Theory | 第35-38页 |
| 2．1．4 The Vital Role of Context in the Determination of Word Meaning | 第38-42页 |
| 2．2 The Definition of Pragmatic Meaning of Lexical Items | 第42-45页 |
| 2．3The Characteristics of the Pragmatic Meanings of Words in Utterances | 第45-51页 |
| 2．3．1Its Subjectivity | 第45-46页 |
| 2．3．2Its Instability | 第46-47页 |
| 2．3．3Its Dependency | 第47-50页 |
| 2．3．4Its Infiniteness | 第50-51页 |
| 2．4The Relations between the Pragmatic Meaning of a Word and Its Linguistic Meaning | 第51-55页 |
| 2．4．1Main Types of Word Meaning | 第52-53页 |
| 2．4．2The difference between pragmatic meaning and associative meaning | 第53-55页 |
| 3． The Construction of Pragmatic Meanings of Words in Utterances | 第55-69页 |
| 3．1 The Processes and Mechanisms of the Interpretation of Utterances | 第56-60页 |
| 3．2 The Interpretation of Words in Utterances | 第60-69页 |
| 3．2．1 Basic (relevance-theoretic) hypotheses about words interpretation in utterances | 第60-61页 |
| 3．3．2 The Processes and Mechanisms of the Interpretation of Words in Utterances | 第61-66页 |
| 3．2．3 Conceptual adjustment and denotation of words in utterances | 第66-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-75页 |
