| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| ·Introduction | 第8-9页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第9页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Methodology and Data | 第10-11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-20页 |
| ·Review of Two Main Approaches to Communication | 第12-16页 |
| ·Grice’s communicative approach | 第12-14页 |
| ·The relevance-theoretical communicative approach and its advantages | 第14-16页 |
| ·Previous Pragmatic Studies on Hongloumeng | 第16-18页 |
| ·Studies of novel conversations from RT | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Three The Relevance-Theoretical Approach to Communication | 第20-31页 |
| ·RT’s Communicative Model | 第20-23页 |
| ·RT’s definition of communication：ostensive-inferential act | 第20-21页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference | 第21-22页 |
| ·Informative Intention and Communicative Intention | 第22-23页 |
| ·RT’ view of the Basis of Communication: Mutual Manifestness | 第23-25页 |
| ·RT’s Principle for Communication | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第25-26页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance and Successful Communication | 第26-27页 |
| ·RT’s view of the condition for relevance: contextual effect | 第27-28页 |
| ·RT’s view of Context in Communication | 第28-31页 |
| ·The function of context | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Choice of Context | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four The Analysis of the Master-Servant Conversations in A Dream of Red Mansions | 第31-59页 |
| ·The Analysis of the Selected Conversations under RT’s communication model | 第31-52页 |
| ·The servants’ ostensive tactics in conversations1-324 | 第31-35页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness in the conversations 4-6 | 第35-38页 |
| ·A guarantee of optimal relevance : servants’ well planned ostensive tactics | 第38-44页 |
| ·Contextual effects in conversations 11-13 | 第44-49页 |
| ·The function of the dynamic context in conversations14-1642 | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Communicative Intention of the Author of Hongloumeng | 第52-59页 |
| ·The author’s communicative intention of arranging the successful master-servant communication | 第54-57页 |
| ·The author’s communicative intention of arranging the failedmaster-servant communication Chapter Five Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-66页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| ·Implications | 第61-64页 |
| ·Reading for understanding the writer’s intension | 第62-63页 |
| ·Searching for optimal relevance as the eventual goal in novel reading | 第63页 |
| ·Choosing a context to understand the text | 第63-64页 |
| ·Limitations | 第64-65页 |
| ·Suggestions | 第65-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-69页 |
| 发表论文清单 | 第69-70页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第70页 |
