| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·Subject of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Objective and Significance of the Study | 第11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Utterance Comprehension and Relevance Theory | 第13-28页 |
| ·Three Influential Models for Utterance Comprehension | 第13-14页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第14-28页 |
| ·A General Picture | 第14-16页 |
| ·Informative Intention and Communicative Intention | 第16-18页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential Communication | 第18-19页 |
| ·Cognitive Environments and Mutual Manifestness | 第19-22页 |
| ·Explicature and Implicature | 第22-25页 |
| ·Contextual Effects and Processing Effort | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Procedural Meaning | 第28-38页 |
| ·The Initial Introduction of Procedural Meaning | 第28-30页 |
| ·Distinction between Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning | 第30-34页 |
| ·Cognition | 第31-32页 |
| ·Truth-evaluability | 第32-33页 |
| ·Compositionality | 第33-34页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Non-truth-conditional Meaning | 第34-35页 |
| ·Classification of Procedural Meaning | 第35-36页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Relevance Theoretic Semantics | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Procedurally Encoded Linguistic Expressions | 第38-59页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Discourse Connectives | 第38-48页 |
| ·Conceptual Discourse Connectives and Procedural Discourse Connectives | 第38-39页 |
| ·Blakemore's Contribution | 第39-44页 |
| ·Other Linguists' Analyses | 第44-48页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Pronouns | 第48-50页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Mood Indicators | 第50-53页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Illocutionary/Attitudinal Particles | 第53-54页 |
| ·Procedural Meaning and Intonation | 第54页 |
| ·Attitudinal/Illocutionary Sentence Adverbials | 第54-57页 |
| ·Brief Summary | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-63页 |
