| 中文摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-12页 |
| Chapter One Delimitation of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第12-19页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12-13页 |
| ·Terminological clarification | 第13-17页 |
| ·The definition of vagueness | 第13-16页 |
| ·The advocating of the notion of pragmatic vagueness | 第16-17页 |
| ·Vagueness and three related terms | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-27页 |
| ·A brief review of the past studies | 第19-25页 |
| ·Philosophical perspective | 第19-21页 |
| ·Semantic perspective | 第21-23页 |
| ·Pragmatic perspective | 第23-25页 |
| ·The limitations and existing problems | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第27-39页 |
| ·The Linguistic Adaptation Theory and pragmatic vagueness | 第27-30页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and pragmatic vagueness | 第30-32页 |
| ·Politeness Principle and pragmatic vagueness | 第32-36页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and pragmatic vagueness | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Four Pragmatic Vagueness as a Strategy in Communication | 第39-62页 |
| ·The dynamics of the strategy of pragmatic vagueness | 第39-43页 |
| ·The notion of meaning generation | 第39-42页 |
| ·Dynamics and context | 第42-43页 |
| ·Linguistic adaptation of pragmatic vagueness | 第43-62页 |
| ·Variability of pragmatic vagueness | 第43-45页 |
| ·Negotiability of pragmatic vagueness | 第45-47页 |
| ·Adaptability of pragmatic vagueness | 第47-54页 |
| ·Rewardability of pragmatic vagueness | 第54-62页 |
| Chapter Five The linguistic realization of pragmatic vagueness | 第62-74页 |
| ·Psychological preparations for the realization of pragmatic vagueness | 第62-66页 |
| ·Weakening the salience of the utterances | 第62-63页 |
| ·Improving the ability of assuming the hearer's mental representation | 第63-65页 |
| ·Improving the firing accuracy of utterance planning | 第65-66页 |
| ·Linguistic structures chosen to realize pragmatic vagueness | 第66-74页 |
| ·Pragmatic vagueness on the lexical level | 第66-70页 |
| ·Pragmatic vagueness on the syntactic level | 第70-72页 |
| ·Pragmatic vagueness on the discourse level | 第72-74页 |
| Chapter Six Pragmatic Vagueness in Intercultural Communication | 第74-84页 |
| ·Intercultural Perspective | 第74-75页 |
| ·Pragmatic vagueness as a strategy in intercultural communication | 第75-84页 |
| ·General strategy | 第76页 |
| ·Intercultural strategy | 第76-84页 |
| Conclusion | 第84-87页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第87-88页 |
| Bibliography | 第88-96页 |
| Declaration | 第96页 |
