| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Defining Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Significance of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Objectives of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Data Collection and Methodology | 第13页 |
| ·The Outline of the Study | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Misunderstanding | 第15-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第17-26页 |
| ·The Perspective of Rhetoric | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Perspective of Logic | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Perspective of Pragmatics | 第19-24页 |
| ·Systematic Studies of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第24-26页 |
| ·Achievements and Limitations of the Past Researches | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第27-39页 |
| ·Adaptation Theory | 第27-30页 |
| ·Making Choices | 第27-28页 |
| ·Three Properties of Language | 第28页 |
| ·Four Angles of Investigation | 第28-30页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第30-33页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference | 第30-31页 |
| ·Contextual Effects and Processing Effort | 第31-32页 |
| ·Two Principles of Relevance and Optimal Relevance | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Relevance-Adaptation Model | 第33-39页 |
| ·Yang Ping and Ran Yongping's Relevance-adaptation Model | 第33-36页 |
| ·Main Claims of Relevance-adaptation Model | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Four Relevance-adaptative Approach to the Study of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第39-64页 |
| ·Triggers of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第39-47页 |
| ·Minimal Information | 第39-40页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Utterance Meaning | 第40-46页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Analysis of Deliberate Misinterpretation from the Perspective of both S1 and S2 | 第47-58页 |
| ·S2's Motivations of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第48-54页 |
| ·S1's Responses to Deliberate Misinterpretation and the Effects of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第54-58页 |
| ·Conversational Strategies to Create Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第58-64页 |
| ·Topic Management Strategies | 第58-60页 |
| ·Turn-taking Strategies | 第60-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第64-68页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Present Study | 第64-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第65-66页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第66-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-70页 |
