| Abbreviations | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-11页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第11-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第17-26页 |
| ·Review of Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis | 第17-19页 |
| ·Conversation Analysis | 第17-18页 |
| ·Discourse Analysis | 第18-19页 |
| ·Gricean Theory and Relevance Theory | 第19-23页 |
| ·Gricean Theory | 第19-22页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第22页 |
| ·Differences between Relevance Theory and Gricean Theory | 第22-23页 |
| ·Background of Communicative Theories | 第23-26页 |
| ·Code Model’s Interpretation of Human Communication | 第24页 |
| ·The Problems Insoluble by Code Model | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Two The Relevance-theoretical Approach to Communication | 第26-42页 |
| ·RT’s Communication Model | 第26-33页 |
| ·The Definition of RT’s Communication | 第26-27页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference | 第27-30页 |
| ·Basis of Communication | 第30-33页 |
| ·The Principle for Ostensive-inferential Communication | 第33-38页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第33-34页 |
| ·Conditions for Relevance—Contextual Effect | 第34-36页 |
| ·Degree of Relevance | 第36页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance and Successful Communication | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Context and Communication | 第38-42页 |
| ·The Choice of Context | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Role of Context in Communication | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Three The Analysis of the Selected Conversations in A Farewell to Arms | 第42-79页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Language in the Work | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Analysis of Selected Conversations under RT’s Communication Model | 第43-69页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference in the Selected Conversations | 第43-53页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference in Conversation | 第44-49页 |
| ·Mutual Manifestness in Conversation | 第49-53页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance in the Selected Conversations | 第53-64页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance and Conversation | 第54-57页 |
| ·Contextual Effect and Conversation | 第57-64页 |
| ·The RT’s Context in the Selected Conversations | 第64-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-79页 |
| ·The Theme in Book I Reflected by the Analysis of Conversations | 第69-71页 |
| ·The Theme in Book II Reflected by the Analysis of Conversations | 第71-73页 |
| ·The Theme in Book III Reflected by the Analysis of Conversations | 第73-75页 |
| ·The Theme in Book IV Reflected by the Analysis of Conversations | 第75-77页 |
| ·The Theme in Book V Reflected by the Analysis of Conversations | 第77-79页 |
| Chapter Four Implications and Applications | 第79-84页 |
| ·Enrichment of the Research of Novel Conversation | 第79-81页 |
| ·Implications for Novel Reading | 第81-84页 |
| ·Reading for Understanding—the Writer’s Intention behind Ostension | 第81-82页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance as the Ultimate Goal in Novel Reading | 第82-83页 |
| ·Choosing a Context to Understand for Reading | 第83-84页 |
| Conclusion | 第84-86页 |
| Notes | 第86-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-91页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第91-92页 |
| 论文作者在学期间发表的学术论文题目 | 第92页 |
