| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-31页 |
| ·Traditional Views on Context | 第16-19页 |
| ·Cognitive Context | 第19-26页 |
| ·Definitions of Cognitive Context | 第21-22页 |
| ·Features of Cognitive Context | 第22-26页 |
| ·Verbal Communication | 第26-31页 |
| ·Definitions of Verbal Communication | 第27-28页 |
| ·Characteristics of Verbal Communication | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第31-47页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Cognitive Context | 第31-37页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第31-33页 |
| ·Relevance and Optimal Relevance | 第33-35页 |
| ·Cognitive Context in Relevance Theory | 第35-37页 |
| ·Verbal Communication and Relevance Theory | 第37-47页 |
| ·Models of Verbal Communication | 第37-44页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference in Relevance Theory | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis of Cognitive Context in the Ostensive-Inferential Communicative Model | 第47-64页 |
| ·Functions of Cognitive Context in Verbal Communication | 第47-53页 |
| ·Constraints of Cognitive Context in Verbal Communication | 第48-50页 |
| ·Help of Cognitive Context to Make the Utterance Meaning Concrete | 第50-53页 |
| ·Elimination of Information of Redundancy | 第53页 |
| ·Speaker's Cognitive Context in the Ostensive Process | 第53-57页 |
| ·Assessment of Hearer's Cognitive Context | 第54-55页 |
| ·Speaker's Manipulating of His Own Cognitive Context in Ostension | 第55-57页 |
| ·Hearer's Cognitive Context in the Inferential Process | 第57-64页 |
| ·Hearer's Inferential Process of Utterance | 第57页 |
| ·Hearer's Selection of Context | 第57-59页 |
| ·Searching for Optimal Relevance Within Cognitive Context | 第59-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第64-67页 |
| References | 第67-69页 |
