| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第4-8页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第8-14页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Rationale for the Present Paper | 第14页 |
| ·Objectives of the Present Paper | 第14-15页 |
| ·Approach Adopted | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization of the Paper | 第16-17页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第17-32页 |
| ·A Review of the Research of Presupposition in Philosophy and Linguistics | 第17-22页 |
| ·Philosophy Review | 第17-20页 |
| ·Linguistics Review | 第20-22页 |
| ·Presupposition in Semantics and Pragmatics | 第22-28页 |
| ·The Study of Presupposition in Semantics | 第22-26页 |
| ·Presupposition and Focus | 第22-23页 |
| ·Presupposition as a Type of Lexical Information.. | 第23-25页 |
| ·Factive and Non-factive | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Study of Presupposition in Pragmatics | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Relationship between Semantic Presupposition and Pragmatic Presupposition | 第28-32页 |
| 3. Similarities and Differences Between the Representations of Presupposition in English and Chinese | 第32-61页 |
| ·Verschueren’s Theory about Conventional Means for Conveying Implicit Meaning | 第32-34页 |
| ·An Introduction to Presupposition-trigger | 第34-39页 |
| ·Presupposition-triggers in Both English and Chinese | 第39-61页 |
| ·Introduction | 第39页 |
| ·The Similarity of Presupposition-triggers in English and Chinese and the Minor Differences in Representation | 第39-61页 |
| 4.A Pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition in Chinese and English | 第61-82页 |
| ·The Two Concepts of Pragmatic Presupposition | 第61-66页 |
| ·Presupposition as Felicity Conditions | 第61-63页 |
| ·Presupposition as Mutual Knowledge | 第63-64页 |
| ·Presupposition as Background Knowledge Related to Culture | 第64-66页 |
| ·Pragmatic Presupposition and Cultural Background | 第66-82页 |
| ·Presupposition Related to Techno-economic Systems and Social System | 第68-70页 |
| ·Presupposition Related to Ideational System | 第70-72页 |
| ·Presupposition Related to Linguistic System | 第72-82页 |
| ·Presupposition Related to the Phonology | 第73页 |
| ·Presupposition Related to the Semantic | 第73-74页 |
| ·Presupposition Related to the Grammar | 第74-82页 |
| 5. Conclusions | 第82-87页 |
| ·Presupposition Should Be Studied In the Perspective of Semantics and Pragmatics | 第82-83页 |
| ·The same presupposition-triggers and different representation in both English and Chinese | 第83-85页 |
| ·The different pragmatic presuppositions in English and Chinese because of their respective cultural background | 第85-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-88页 |
