| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Review of Relevant Literature | 第15-30页 |
| ·Introduction | 第15页 |
| ·Definition of Courtroom Cross-examination | 第15-17页 |
| ·Contextual Features of Courtroom Cross-examination | 第17-20页 |
| ·Roles of Participants in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Interpersonal Relation Between Participants | 第19页 |
| ·The Psychology of Participants in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第19-20页 |
| ·Purpose of Courtroom Cross-examination | 第20-21页 |
| ·Related Research on Courtroom Cross-examination | 第21-24页 |
| ·Critique of the Previous Researches on Courtroom Cross-examination | 第24-25页 |
| ·Overview of the Presupposition Theory | 第25-28页 |
| ·Overview of the Theoretical Study | 第25-27页 |
| ·Overview of the Practical Study | 第27-28页 |
| ·Critique on the Presupposition Theory | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第30-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第30页 |
| ·Introduction to the Presupposition Theory | 第30-47页 |
| ·The Concept of Presupposition | 第30-33页 |
| ·Two Approaches to Presupposition | 第33-43页 |
| ·Semantic presupposition | 第33-35页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition | 第35-43页 |
| ·Relation Between Semantic Presupposition and Pragmatic Presupposition | 第43-44页 |
| ·Properties or Characteristics of Presupposition | 第44-47页 |
| ·Presupposition and Information Focus | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Position of Information Focus | 第47-48页 |
| ·Information Focus and Presupposition | 第48-49页 |
| ·Presupposition in This Thesis | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Three The Strategic Employment of Presupposition in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第51-81页 |
| ·Introduction to Presupposition Triggers | 第51页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in the Courtroom Cross-examination | 第51-69页 |
| ·Definite Descriptions in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第51-53页 |
| ·Factive Verbs in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第53-55页 |
| ·Implicative Verbs in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第55-56页 |
| ·Change of State Verbs in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第56-57页 |
| ·Iteratives in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第57-58页 |
| ·Attributive Clauses in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第58-60页 |
| ·Adverbial Clauses of Time in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第60-61页 |
| ·Adverbial Clauses of Counterfactual Conditionals in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第61-62页 |
| ·Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Sentences in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第62-65页 |
| ·Comparative Sentences in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第65-67页 |
| ·Question Types in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第67-69页 |
| ·The Analysis of Sham Pragmatic Presupposition in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第69-81页 |
| ·Definition of Sham Pragmatic Presupposition | 第69-70页 |
| ·Two Forms of Sham Pragmatic Presupposition | 第70-73页 |
| ·Unintentional sham pragmatic presupposition | 第70-71页 |
| ·Intentional sham pragmatic presupposition | 第71-73页 |
| ·Two Ways for the Counsel to Use Sham Pragmatic Presupposition in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第73-81页 |
| ·The counsel makes use of sham pragmatic presupposition to test the truth of hypothesis | 第74-77页 |
| ·The counsel can use the witness’s sham pragmatic presupposition as the weapon to make him/her unable to change and quibble. | 第77-81页 |
| Chapter Four The Pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition in the Courtroom Cross-examination of a Case | 第81-90页 |
| ·Introduction | 第81页 |
| ·The Case Analysis | 第81-86页 |
| ·Ways to Distinguish and Break the Presuppositions | 第86-88页 |
| ·Evaluation About the Presupposition Strategy in Courtroom Cross-examination | 第88-90页 |
| Conclusion | 第90-93页 |
| Bibliography | 第93-99页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第99-100页 |
| Resume | 第100页 |
