| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| ·A Contrastive Review: Traditional Approach and Communicative Approach to Reading Comprehension | 第9-13页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review: Reading Comprehension | 第14-27页 |
| ·The Major Models of Reading Comprehension | 第14-23页 |
| ·Bottom- up Model of Reading | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Top-down Model | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Interactive Model | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Schema-theoretic Model | 第21-22页 |
| ·Summary | 第22-23页 |
| ·Nature of Reading Comprehension | 第23-27页 |
| ·Reading as a Cognitive Process | 第23-24页 |
| ·Reading as a Construction Process | 第24页 |
| ·Reading as an Interactive Process | 第24-25页 |
| ·Reading as a Strategic Process | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three A Relevance-theoretic Approach to Reading Comprehension | 第27-48页 |
| ·The General Review of Relevance Theory | 第27-35页 |
| ·A New Approach to Communication: Ostensive-inferential Process | 第27-29页 |
| ·New Conception of Context (Cognitive Environment) | 第29-31页 |
| ·Relevance and Optimal Relevance | 第31-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35页 |
| ·A Relevance-theoretic Approach to Reading Comprehension | 第35-48页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential Communication in Reading Comprehension | 第35-39页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference in Process of Reading | 第36-37页 |
| ·Inferance of the Utterance Interpretation | 第37-39页 |
| ·Reading as a Process of Contextualization | 第39-44页 |
| ·Choosing a Context for Understanding of Reading | 第39-40页 |
| ·Vocabulary Development in Context | 第40-44页 |
| ·Reading Comprehension as A Process of Seeking Optimal Relevance between the Writer and the Reader | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Four Some Implications of Relevance Theory for Teaching College Reading | 第48-55页 |
| ·The Application of Relevance Theory for Lexical Meaning in Context | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Application of Relevance Theory for Language with Rhetoric | 第50-52页 |
| ·Filling in the Cross-cultural Information Gap | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-62页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第62-63页 |