| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Research background | 第10-12页 |
| ·Research objectives and significance | 第12页 |
| ·Data collection and research methodology | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of this thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-28页 |
| ·Studies on metonymy | 第15-22页 |
| ·Traditional rhetorical view of metonymy | 第15-17页 |
| ·Pragmatic view of metonymy | 第17-19页 |
| ·Cognitive view of metonymy | 第19-21页 |
| ·Studies of metonymy based on relevance theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Studies on romantic poems | 第22-28页 |
| ·Poetic approach to romantic poetry | 第22-24页 |
| ·Social and historical approach to romantic poetry | 第24-26页 |
| ·Studies of metonymy in romantic poetry | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第28-46页 |
| ·Principle of relevance | 第29-38页 |
| ·Cognitive principle of relevance | 第30-34页 |
| ·Communicative principle of relevance | 第34-38页 |
| ·Utterance comprehension and poetic effects | 第38-46页 |
| ·Explicature and implicature | 第38-41页 |
| ·Sub-tasks of relevance-theoretical comprehension procedure | 第41-43页 |
| ·Poetic effects | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Identification of Explicature of Metonymy in Romantic Poems | 第46-52页 |
| ·Prerequisite of explicature identification | 第46-48页 |
| ·Methods of identifying the explicature of metonymy | 第48-52页 |
| ·Decoding | 第48-49页 |
| ·Disambiguation | 第49-50页 |
| ·Reference resolution | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 5 Construction of Metonymy Contextual Assumptions in RomanticPoems | 第52-61页 |
| ·Constraints on context construction in metonymy understanding | 第52-55页 |
| ·Memory constraints in context construction | 第53-54页 |
| ·Balance between processing efforts and contextual effects | 第54-55页 |
| ·A tool for constructing contextual assumptions:bridging inference | 第55-61页 |
| ·Filling the gap between utterance meaning and intended meaning | 第56-58页 |
| ·Inference from one contextual assumption to another | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter 6 Recovery of Implicatures of Metonymy in Romantic Poems | 第61-70页 |
| ·Choosing the contextual assumptions | 第61-64页 |
| ·Heuristics for the choice of possible assumptions | 第61-62页 |
| ·Seeking optimal relevance | 第62-64页 |
| ·Implicatures of metonymy in romantic poems | 第64-70页 |
| ·Strong implicaute generating the first satisfactory understanding | 第64-66页 |
| ·Weak implicature generating the optimal understanding | 第66-70页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第70-73页 |
| ·Major findings | 第70-72页 |
| ·Limitation of this study and prospects for future research | 第72-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-76页 |
| Websites visited | 第76-77页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间主要科研成果 | 第77-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78页 |
