| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| ·A Classification of MN | 第8-14页 |
| ·The Negated Content of MN | 第9-13页 |
| ·The Forms of MN | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review and Theoretic Background | 第14-26页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Studies of MN | 第14-19页 |
| ·Non-cognitive Studies | 第14-17页 |
| ·Cognitive Studies | 第17-19页 |
| ·Critique about Previous Studies | 第19-23页 |
| ·Theoretic Basis of This Paper | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Cognitive Linguistic Notion of Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM) | 第23-25页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Cognitive Pragmatic Approach to the Features of MN | 第26-44页 |
| ·MN As a Metarepresentational Use: In the Speaker's Perspective | 第26-32页 |
| ·Metarepresentation: a Relevance-Theoretical Notion | 第26-27页 |
| ·Special Properties of Metarepresentational Use in MN | 第27-32页 |
| ·MN As a Kind of Pragmatic Negation: In the Hearer's Perspective | 第32-34页 |
| ·Pragmatic Negation VS. Semantic Negation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Two Reasons Accounting for MN's Pragmatic Feature | 第33-34页 |
| ·Negation of Preferential Idealized Cognitive Model (PICM): Nature of MN | 第34-44页 |
| ·The Notion of PICM | 第34-35页 |
| ·Negation within an ICM VS. Negation between ICMs | 第35-37页 |
| ·Analysis of MN with the Notion of PICM | 第37-44页 |
| Chapter 4 Mechanism of Decoding MN : The Application of Relevance Theory | 第44-50页 |
| ·The Inference Model of Relevance Theory | 第44-45页 |
| ·A Five-Step Model of Decoding MN | 第45-46页 |
| ·Analysis of MN with This Five-Step Model | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
