| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| 1. Background Information | 第10-11页 |
| 2. Research Subject of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| 3. The Framework of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第14-40页 |
| ·An Overview of the Researches on Ambiguity | 第14-30页 |
| ·Definitions of Ambiguity | 第16-18页 |
| ·Classification and Causes of Ambiguity | 第18-27页 |
| ·Phonetic or Phonological Ambiguity | 第19-20页 |
| ·Lexical Ambiguity | 第20-21页 |
| ·Syntactic Ambiguity | 第21-23页 |
| ·Pragmatic Ambiguity | 第23-27页 |
| ·Previous Researches on the Elimination of Ambiguity | 第27-30页 |
| ·The Negative and Positive Effects of Ambiguity | 第30-31页 |
| ·Differences Between Ambiguity and Vagueness | 第31-34页 |
| ·Differences Between Ambiguity and Misunderstanding | 第34-38页 |
| ·The Significance of Ambiguity Study | 第38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Two Relevance Theory | 第40-56页 |
| ·Context and Cognitive Context | 第40-44页 |
| ·Situational Context and Cultural Context | 第42页 |
| ·Cognitive Context | 第42-44页 |
| ·Relevance and Contextual Effect | 第44-50页 |
| ·Relevance and Optimal Relevance | 第45-47页 |
| ·Two Principles of Relevance | 第47-48页 |
| ·Maximal Relevance and Optimal Relevance | 第48-49页 |
| ·Contextual Effect and Processing Effort | 第49-50页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential Communication and Intention | 第50-53页 |
| ·The Relevance-theoretic Comprehension Procedure | 第53-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Three Elimination of Ambiguity from the Perspective of Relevance Theory | 第56-80页 |
| ·Causes of Ambiguity from the Perspective of Relevance Theory | 第57-61页 |
| ·Deficiency of Ostension | 第58-60页 |
| ·Deficiency of Shared Knowledge | 第59页 |
| ·Deficiency of Cultural Knowledge | 第59-60页 |
| ·Different Cognitive Context | 第60页 |
| ·Different Intensions | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Important Place of Disambiguation in Relevance Theory | 第61-62页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic Account for Disambiguation | 第62-76页 |
| ·Relevance—Basis of Disambiguation | 第63-66页 |
| ·Cognitive Context and Disambiguation | 第66-67页 |
| ·Shared Knowledge and Disambiguation | 第67-68页 |
| ·Inference and Disambiguation | 第68-72页 |
| ·The Process of Inference—the Process of Disambiguation | 第69-71页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential Communication and Disambiguation | 第71-72页 |
| ·Recovery of Proposition as an Effective Approach to Disambiguation | 第72-74页 |
| ·Contextual Effects and Disambiguation | 第74-76页 |
| ·The Implications of the Study for English Teaching | 第76-78页 |
| ·Enlarging Students' Cognitive Context to Seek Optimal Relevance | 第77页 |
| ·Training Students to Employ Contextual Assumptions | 第77-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-80页 |
| Conclusion | 第80-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-86页 |
| Appendix | 第86-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88-90页 |
