| Descriptive Chinese Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| English Abstract | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第12-14页 |
| ·Objective | 第14页 |
| ·Methodology | 第14-15页 |
| ·Organization | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Presupposition | 第16-25页 |
| ·The Philosophical Origin | 第16-19页 |
| ·Semantic Presupposition and Pragmatic Presupposition | 第19-20页 |
| ·Theories Used to Explain Pragmatic Presupposition | 第20-23页 |
| ·Appropriateness | 第21页 |
| ·Common Ground Theory (mutual knowledge) | 第21-22页 |
| ·Global Cancellation | 第22-23页 |
| ·Context Selection | 第23页 |
| ·Presupposition in the Dissertation | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 3 A Survey of Context | 第25-41页 |
| ·A General View of Context | 第25-30页 |
| ·Background Study of Context | 第25-26页 |
| ·Sperber and Wilson’s View of Context | 第26-30页 |
| ·Optimal Communicative Context | 第30-32页 |
| ·Features of Optimal Communicative Context | 第30-31页 |
| ·Feasibility of Building Optimal Communicative Context | 第31-32页 |
| ·Function of Optimal Context | 第32-39页 |
| ·The Interpretative Function of Optimal Context | 第33-38页 |
| ·The Restrictive Function of Optimal Context | 第38-39页 |
| ·Presupposition in Optimal Context Construction | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Speaker’s Intention and Optimal Context Construction | 第41-50页 |
| ·Speaker’s Intention in Utterance Construction | 第41-44页 |
| ·Presupposition Accommodation in Utterance Understanding | 第44-45页 |
| ·Context-involved Transmission of Communicative Intention | 第45-46页 |
| ·Sham Pragmatic Presupposition in Optimal Context Construction | 第46-50页 |
| ·Speaker’s Intention and Sham Pragmatic Presupposition | 第46-49页 |
| ·Sham Pragmatic Presupposition and Optimal Context Construction | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter 5 A Manipulation of Pragmatic Presupposition in Optimal Context Construction | 第50-65页 |
| ·Four Theories in the Manipulation of Presupposition | 第50-61页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions as Presuppositions | 第50-53页 |
| ·Common Knowledge as Presupposition | 第53-55页 |
| ·Global Cancellation and Presupposition | 第55-59页 |
| ·Context Selection and Presupposition | 第59-61页 |
| ·Contribution of Presupposition to Effective Communication | 第61-65页 |
| ·Influence of Pragmatic Presupposition on the Shift of Information Focus | 第61页 |
| ·Quantity of Pragmatic Presupposition | 第61-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| References | 第68-71页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix A: Publications During the Program | 第72-73页 |
| Appendix B: Informative Chinese Abstract | 第73-76页 |
