| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| 1 Literature Review | 第13-32页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第13-21页 |
| ·Two principles of relevance | 第14-18页 |
| ·Cognitive principle of relevance | 第14-16页 |
| ·Communicative principle of relevance | 第16-18页 |
| ·Context | 第18-19页 |
| ·Relevance theory and utterance interpretation | 第19-21页 |
| ·Review of previous literature | 第21-32页 |
| ·Studies on DMI abroad | 第21-26页 |
| ·Fisher’s “misunderstanding strategies” | 第21-23页 |
| ·Dascal’s “non-standard misunderstanding” | 第23-24页 |
| ·Weigand’s “planned misunderstanding” | 第24-25页 |
| ·Tzanne’s “intentional misunderstanding” | 第25-26页 |
| ·Studies on DMI at home | 第26-30页 |
| ·From logical perspective | 第26-28页 |
| ·From rhetorical perspective | 第28-29页 |
| ·From pragmatic perspective | 第29-30页 |
| ·Achievements and limitations of the previous studies | 第30-31页 |
| ·The differences between the present study and the previous studies | 第31-32页 |
| 2 Methodology | 第32-34页 |
| ·The methods and procedure of the study | 第32页 |
| ·Data collection and analysis | 第32-34页 |
| 3 Results and Discussion | 第34-63页 |
| ·Phonetic means | 第35-43页 |
| ·Making use of homophones | 第35-38页 |
| ·Utilizing similar pronunciations of different words or phrases | 第38-41页 |
| ·Reverting the order of characters’pronunciations | 第41-43页 |
| ·Lexical means | 第43-51页 |
| ·Employing polysemy | 第43-46页 |
| ·Using words with similar wordforms | 第46-47页 |
| ·Distorting word meaning according to meanings of characters composing it | 第47-50页 |
| ·Making use of indeterminacy of deictic expressions | 第50-51页 |
| ·Syntactic means | 第51-54页 |
| ·Pragmatic means | 第54-59页 |
| ·Utilizing indirect speech acts | 第54-55页 |
| ·Widening people’s common concepts | 第55-57页 |
| ·Shifting people’s common concepts | 第57-59页 |
| ·Misinterpreting people’s common concepts | 第59页 |
| ·Rhetorical means | 第59-63页 |
| ·Personification | 第60-61页 |
| ·Sarcasm | 第61-62页 |
| ·Bathos | 第62-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| Summary of main findings | 第63-65页 |
| Practical and pedagogical implications | 第65页 |
| Limitation and suggestions for further study | 第65-67页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第67-68页 |
| References | 第68-74页 |
| Appendix I Published papers during study of MA | 第74页 |
