| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Linguistic Research and Logic | 第11-13页 |
| ·Formalization in Pragmatics | 第13-14页 |
| ·Abduction and Pragmatic Inference | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the Dissertation | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Abduction: A General Introduction | 第16-35页 |
| ·Understanding the Notion of Abduction | 第16-21页 |
| ·Origin of Abduction | 第16页 |
| ·Development of Abduction | 第16-21页 |
| ·Evaluation in Abductive Reasoning | 第21-23页 |
| ·Classification of Abduction | 第23-25页 |
| ·Features of Abduction | 第25-28页 |
| ·Ampliativeness | 第25-26页 |
| ·Defeasibility | 第26-27页 |
| ·Creativeness | 第27-28页 |
| ·Instinct | 第28页 |
| ·Application of Abduction | 第28-35页 |
| ·Abduction in Ordinary Life | 第28-30页 |
| ·Abduction in Scientific Reasoning | 第30-31页 |
| ·Abduction in Artificial Intelligence | 第31-32页 |
| ·Abduction in Natural Language Understanding | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter Three Deduction, Induction and Abduction | 第35-42页 |
| ·Deduction and Induction | 第35-36页 |
| ·Induction and Abduction | 第36-39页 |
| ·Inference in Scientific Discovery | 第39-42页 |
| ·Falsification | 第39-40页 |
| ·Truth-producing | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Models of Communication | 第42-53页 |
| ·Code Model | 第43-45页 |
| ·Message Model | 第43-44页 |
| ·Problems with Message Model | 第44-45页 |
| ·Inferential Model | 第45-51页 |
| ·Grice's Approach | 第46-47页 |
| ·Criticisms of Grice's Work | 第47-48页 |
| ·Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory | 第48-50页 |
| ·Criticisms of Relevance Theory | 第50-51页 |
| ·Interaction Model | 第51页 |
| ·Self-regulatory Model | 第51-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Five Abduction and Pragmatic Inference | 第53-69页 |
| ·Inference in Pragmatics | 第53-54页 |
| ·Grice's Theory of Conversational Implicature and Abduction | 第54-58页 |
| ·Defeasibility | 第55-56页 |
| ·Non-detachability | 第56页 |
| ·Calculability | 第56-57页 |
| ·Non-conventionality | 第57-58页 |
| ·Indeterminacy | 第58页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Abduction | 第58-63页 |
| ·Similarities Between Relevance Theory and Abduction | 第58-61页 |
| ·Relevance Theory Embodies Abductive Reasoning | 第61-63页 |
| ·Economic Principle | 第63-68页 |
| ·Economy of Research in Abduction | 第63-66页 |
| ·Economic Principle in Cooperative Principle | 第66页 |
| ·Economic Principle in Relevance Theory | 第66-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-79页 |
