| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第12-18页 |
| ·TYPES OF DRAMATIC COMMUNICATION | 第12-15页 |
| ·Playwright - Reader Communication via Dramatic Text | 第12-13页 |
| ·Character - Character Communication via Dramatic Plotting | 第13-14页 |
| ·Playwright-Theatrical Staff Communication via Stage Interpretation | 第14页 |
| ·Theatrical Staff-Audience Communication via Stage Performance | 第14-15页 |
| ·ARTISTIC FEATURES OF WAITING FOR GODOT | 第15-16页 |
| ·RESEARCH PURPOSE AND THESIS FRAMEWORK | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPTER 2 PREVIOUS RESEARCHES ON DRAMA | 第18-26页 |
| ·TRADITIONAL PRAGMASTYLISTIC STUDIES OF DRAMA | 第18-20页 |
| ·SHORT’S DOUBLE-LEVEL STRUCTURE OF DRAMATIC DISCOURSE | 第20-21页 |
| ·FENG ZONGXIN’S PRAGMATIC STUDY OF DRAMATIC COMMUNICATION | 第21-23页 |
| ·Multi-Level Structure of Dramatic Discourse | 第21-22页 |
| ·Interpersonal Rhetoric in and of Drama | 第22-23页 |
| ·LI HUADONG’S PRAGMASTYLISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON STAGE DIRECTIONS | 第23-26页 |
| CHAPTER 3 ADAPTATION-RELEVANCE THEORY MODEL | 第26-41页 |
| ·VERSCHUEREN’S ADAPTATION THEORY | 第26-29页 |
| ·Production and Interpretation of Language as Choice-Making Processes .. | 第26-27页 |
| ·Salience of Language Choice-Making Process | 第27页 |
| ·Contextual Correlates of Adaptation | 第27-28页 |
| ·Dynamics of Adaptation | 第28-29页 |
| ·SPERBER & WILSON’S RELEVANCE THEORY | 第29-33页 |
| ·Mutual Manifestness of Cognitive Environments | 第29-30页 |
| ·Ostensive-Inferential Communication | 第30-31页 |
| ·Principle of Relevance | 第31-32页 |
| ·Dynamics of Cognitive Contexts | 第32-33页 |
| ·RAN YONGPING’S ADAPTATION-RELEVANCE MODEL (ARM) ―AN INTEGRATED MODEL | 第33-36页 |
| ·The ARM Proper | 第33-35页 |
| ·Contextual Dynamics of Adaptation & Relevance | 第35页 |
| ·Ran Yongping’s Application of ARM to Verbal Communication | 第35-36页 |
| ·A REVISED ARM FOR PLAYWRIGHT-READER COMMUNICATION INTERPRETATION | 第36-41页 |
| CHAPTER 4 A CASE STUDY OF WAITING FOR GODOT | 第41-42页 |
| ·DATA COLLECTION | 第41页 |
| ·AN ARM APPROACH TO DATA ANALYSIS | 第41-42页 |
| CHAPTER 5 AN ARM INTERPRETATION OF THE PLAYWRIGHT-READER COMMUNICATION IN WAITING FOR GODOT | 第42-70页 |
| ·MUTUAL MANIFESTNESS OF THE PLAYWRIGHT AND TARGET READERS’COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS | 第42-45页 |
| ·PLAYWRIGHT’S CONTEXTUAL ADAPTATION IN DRAMA PRODUCTION | 第45-59页 |
| ·Presumption of Relevance: A Guide for the Playwright’s Linguistic and Strategic Choices | 第45-46页 |
| ·Linguistic and Strategic Adaption to the Contextual Correlates | 第46-57页 |
| ·Linguistic and Strategic Choices | 第47-49页 |
| ·Characterization | 第49-52页 |
| ·Plotting | 第52-57页 |
| ·Dynamics of Adaptation in the Drama Production | 第57-58页 |
| ·Playwright’s Awareness in the Contextual Adaptation | 第58-59页 |
| ·READERS’PURSUIT OF OPTIMAL RELEVANCE IN DRAMA INTERPRETATION | 第59-68页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance: A Target for Reader’s Cognition | 第59-60页 |
| ·Readers’Contextual Choices of Optimal Relevance | 第60-63页 |
| ·Linguistic Contextual Choices | 第61页 |
| ·Situational Contextual Choices | 第61-62页 |
| ·Cognitive Contextual Choices | 第62-63页 |
| ·Readers’Relevant Choices of Inferential Results | 第63-68页 |
| ·Losers’Relevant Choices | 第64-65页 |
| ·Literary Scholars’Relevant Choices | 第65-67页 |
| ·Common People’s Relevant Choices | 第67-68页 |
| ·A SUMMARY: A GENERAL ARM INTERPRETATION OF PLAYWRIGHT-READER COMMUNICATION OF WAITING FOR GODOT | 第68-70页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION | 第70-71页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第71-74页 |
| PAPERS PUBLISHED DURING M.A. STUDY | 第74页 |
