| Acknowledgments | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ RELEVANCE THEORY--A PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO UTTERANCE INTERPRETATION PROCESS | 第8-35页 |
| ·Code Model and Inferential Model | 第10-12页 |
| ·Cognitive Environment and Mutual Manifest | 第12-17页 |
| ·Strength of Assumptions | 第17-20页 |
| ·Relevance | 第20-35页 |
| ·Contextual effects | 第20-21页 |
| ·Conditions for Relevance | 第21-22页 |
| ·Degrees of Relevance: effect and effort | 第22-24页 |
| ·Context: given and chosen | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第26-29页 |
| ·How Relevance Theory Explains Ostensive-Inferential Communication | 第29-35页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ VIEWING RELEVANCE THEORY IN THE LIGHT OF NEUROSCIENCE--A NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SPEECH PERCEPTION | 第35-68页 |
| ·The Cognitive and Biological Bases of Utterance Interpretation | 第36-49页 |
| ·From the Ear to the Brain | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Cerebral Hemispheres and the Cerebral Cortex | 第38-39页 |
| ·Information Processing in the Neural Network | 第39-49页 |
| ·Structural Components: Neurons and Glial Cells | 第39-43页 |
| ·Conduction of Information within Neurons | 第43-46页 |
| ·Communication between Neurons | 第46-49页 |
| ·The Micro-Realization of Relevance Theory | 第49-68页 |
| ·The Cerebral Neural Network: Pathways of the Information Processing | 第49-54页 |
| ·The Operation of CNN underlying the Relevance Theory | 第54-68页 |
| ·Contextual Assumptions & Spreading Activation Models | 第56-59页 |
| ·Neural Nature of Cognitive Effort | 第59-62页 |
| ·Neural Calculation of Contextual Effect & Optimal Relevance | 第62-68页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ IMPLICATURES | 第68-71页 |
| REFERENCES | 第71-73页 |
