| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introdnction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Historical Review | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| ·Objective and Organization of the Thesis | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review of Presupposition | 第17-29页 |
| ·Philosophical Background: the Frege-Strawson Tradition | 第17-19页 |
| ·Semantic Approach to Presupposition | 第19-22页 |
| ·Semantic notions of presupposition | 第19-20页 |
| ·Major problems of semantic notions of presupposition | 第20-22页 |
| ·Traditional Influential Pragmatic Notions of Presupposition | 第22-27页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition as mutual knowledge | 第23-25页 |
| ·Pragmatic presuppositions as felicity conditions | 第25-26页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition and implicature | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Three A Cognitive Pragmatic Interpretation of Presupposition in Communication | 第29-44页 |
| ·A Cognitive-pragmatic View of Human Communication | 第29-35页 |
| ·A combination of code model and inferential rnodel of communication | 第30-31页 |
| ·Cognition and language use | 第31-32页 |
| ·A cognitive-pragmatic interpretation of verbal communication | 第32-35页 |
| ·A Cognitive-pragmatic Account of Presupposition in Communication | 第35-43页 |
| ·Speaker's presupposition | 第35-37页 |
| ·Presupposition and relevance | 第37-43页 |
| ·Presupposition as the source of relevance | 第38-39页 |
| ·Presupposition as relevance indicator | 第39-41页 |
| ·Presupposition as relevance condition | 第41-43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter Four Reanalysis of Main Aspects of Presupposition | 第44-65页 |
| ·Reanalysis of Presupposition Trigger | 第44-52页 |
| ·Conventional triggering vs. conversational triggering | 第45-47页 |
| ·Presupposition trigger as carrier of speaker's presupposition | 第47-52页 |
| ·A Cognitive-pragmatic Account of Defeasibility | 第52-57页 |
| ·A cognitive view of context | 第52-54页 |
| ·Defeasibility in the dynamic process of communication | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Projection Problem | 第57-61页 |
| ·Backgrounding and Noncontroversiality | 第61-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| ·Contribution of the Thesis | 第65-66页 |
| ·Consequence: A Broad Notion of Presupposition | 第66-67页 |
| ·Points for Further Study | 第67-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-72页 |
