| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter I Problems in the present teaching of communication | 第11-15页 |
| ·Isolation from context | 第11-12页 |
| ·Neglect of utterance meaning | 第12页 |
| ·Excessive emphasis on grammatical structures | 第12-13页 |
| ·Neglect of the cultural differences | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter II Communicative competence and its acquisition | 第15-20页 |
| ·The definition of communicative competence 7. | 第15-16页 |
| ·Unequalness between native and non-native speakers | 第16-17页 |
| ·What the non-native speakers should learn to acquire communicative Competence | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter III Theories related to the conversational implication | 第20-41页 |
| ·Grice's theory of implicature | 第20-27页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and maxims of conversation | 第20-22页 |
| ·Flouting of maxims | 第22-27页 |
| ·Context and coherence | 第27-30页 |
| ·context and meaning | 第27-28页 |
| ·coherence and meaning | 第28-30页 |
| ·Sentence meaning and utterance meaning | 第30-33页 |
| ·The theory of indirect speech act | 第33-41页 |
| Chapter IV Case analysis of miscommunication | 第41-50页 |
| Chapter V Communication: from theories to teaching | 第50-63页 |
| ·Connecting language form with communicative function | 第51-53页 |
| ·Explicit teaching of rules of speech | 第53-55页 |
| ·Raising consciousness of cultural difference | 第55-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-66页 |
