| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| ·Topic of the Study | 第8页 |
| ·Objectives of the Research | 第8-9页 |
| ·Methodology and Significance of the Research | 第9-10页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Conversational Implicature and Speaker’s Meaning | 第11-20页 |
| ·Meaning: Natural Meaning and Non-natural Meaning | 第11-12页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Theory | 第12-16页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle | 第13-14页 |
| ·Generation of Conversational Implicature | 第14-16页 |
| ·Classification of Converstional Implicature | 第16页 |
| ·Speaker’s Meaning: What is Said and What is Implicated | 第16-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Speaker’s Meaning | 第17-18页 |
| ·Pragmatic Inference of Speaker’s Meaning | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Elaboration of Cross-cultural Communication Context | 第20-33页 |
| ·A General Review of Context | 第20-23页 |
| ·Definiton of Context | 第20-21页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Context | 第21-23页 |
| ·Cross-cultural Communication and Cross-cultural Communication Context | 第23-24页 |
| ·Reclassification of Cross-cultural Communication Context | 第24-33页 |
| ·Cultural Context | 第25-29页 |
| ·Logical Context | 第29-31页 |
| ·Situational Context | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 3 Inference of Speaker’s Meaning from the Coupling of Cross-cultural Communication Contextual Elements | 第33-54页 |
| ·A Survey of Coupling | 第33-34页 |
| ·Principles for the Coupling of Cross-cultural Contextual Elements | 第34-37页 |
| ·Integration Principle | 第34-35页 |
| ·Optimization Principle | 第35-36页 |
| ·Dynamicity Principle | 第36-37页 |
| ·Types of the Coupling of Cross-cultural Communication Contextual Elements | 第37-47页 |
| ·Strong Coupling | 第38-39页 |
| ·Loose Coupling | 第39-42页 |
| ·Coherent Coupling | 第42-47页 |
| ·The Impact of the Coupling of Cross-cultural Communication Contextual Elements on the Inference of Speaker’s Meaning | 第47-54页 |
| ·Elimination of Ambiguity | 第48-50页 |
| ·Removement of Vagueness | 第50-51页 |
| ·Supply of Omitted Information | 第51-52页 |
| ·Derivition of Implicature | 第52-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| References | 第56-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60-61页 |
| Informative Chinese Abstract | 第61-64页 |
| Résuméand Publications since Entering the Program | 第64页 |
