| Abstract in English | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-29页 |
| ·Preliminary remarks | 第15-17页 |
| ·Defining scalar implicature | 第17-19页 |
| ·Imperfections of Grice’s theory on scalar implicature | 第19-25页 |
| ·Grice’s theory of conversational implicature | 第19-20页 |
| ·Limitations of Grice’s theory of conversational implicature | 第20-25页 |
| ·Major concerns of the present study | 第25-28页 |
| Notes to Chapter One | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Two Scalar implicature: its current issues and debates | 第29-107页 |
| ·Approaches to scalar implicature in post-Gricean theories | 第29-86页 |
| ·Scalar implicature in neo-Gricean theories | 第29-53页 |
| ·Scalar implicature as speaker meaning in Horn’s model | 第30-41页 |
| ·Scalar implicature as default inference in Levinson’s model | 第41-53页 |
| ·Scalar implicature in relevance theory | 第53-66页 |
| ·Scalar implicature in other post-Gricean accounts | 第66-86页 |
| ·Scalar implicature: its controversies in interpretation models | 第86-90页 |
| ·Questioning the previous study on scalar implicature | 第90-99页 |
| ·The defining problems of scalar sets | 第91-93页 |
| ·The defining problems of the attributes of scalar implicature | 第93-96页 |
| ·The problems of the previous models | 第96-99页 |
| ·The feasibility of interpreting scalar implicature as the system-based default meaning | 第99-102页 |
| Notes to Chapter Two | 第102-107页 |
| Chapter Three Scalar implicature as the system-based meaning | 第107-127页 |
| ·Introduction | 第107-108页 |
| ·Saussure’s thought of language as a system | 第108-123页 |
| ·The schema-instance relationship among the system, terms and signs | 第108-116页 |
| ·Two basic relationships in Saussure’s thought of language as a system | 第116-120页 |
| ·Language as a conventional system in Saussure’s linguistics | 第120-123页 |
| ·Summary | 第123-125页 |
| Notes to Chapter Three | 第125-127页 |
| Chapter Four Scalar implicature and the system-sign relationship | 第127-157页 |
| ·Horn scales and their problems | 第127-137页 |
| ·The deficiency of Horn scales | 第127-131页 |
| ·Revising Horn scales | 第131-135页 |
| ·Problems with previous formations of scalar sets | 第135-137页 |
| ·Differentiation of notions: scale, set, linguistic expression, word and term | 第137-139页 |
| ·Defining sets via associative relations | 第139-143页 |
| ·Types of associative sets | 第143-150页 |
| ·Further reflections on associative sets | 第150-153页 |
| ·Summary | 第153-155页 |
| Notes to Chapter Four | 第155-157页 |
| Chapter Five Scalar implicature and the sign-sign relationship | 第157-174页 |
| ·Introduction | 第157页 |
| ·The associative set as a system of semantic relations | 第157-165页 |
| ·Associative implicature defined via associative sets | 第165-170页 |
| ·Summary | 第170-172页 |
| Notes to Chapter Five | 第172-174页 |
| Chapter Six Scalar implicature and the conventional system of language | 第174-197页 |
| ·Introduction | 第174页 |
| ·Scalar implicature as the system-based meaning | 第174-175页 |
| ·Scalar implicature defaulted by the language system | 第175-182页 |
| ·Defaultness in Saussure’s linguistics | 第176-177页 |
| ·Common characteristics of defaults and conventions | 第177-178页 |
| ·The role of conventions in the default interpretation of scalar implicature | 第178-182页 |
| ·Convention-based reasoning: the inferential mechanism of scalar implicature | 第182-194页 |
| ·The said versus the inferred | 第183-186页 |
| ·Defining reasoning | 第186-187页 |
| ·The hard way and the quick way of reasoning | 第187-190页 |
| ·The inference of scalar implicature as the convention-based reasoning process | 第190-194页 |
| ·Summary | 第194-196页 |
| Notes to Chapter Six | 第196-197页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第197-202页 |
| ·Introduction | 第197页 |
| ·Major ideas of the present study | 第197-200页 |
| ·Contributions of the present study | 第200-201页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for the further research | 第201-202页 |
| Bibliography | 第202-217页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第217-219页 |
| 在学期间公开发表论文及著作情况 | 第219页 |
