| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·The definition of deliberate misinterpretation | 第10-12页 |
| ·The rationale of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·The objectives of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Data collection and methodology | 第14页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2. Literature Review | 第16-24页 |
| ·Related-studies of deliberate misinterpretation | 第16-21页 |
| ·The study of deliberate misinterpretation from perspective of misunderstanding | 第16-19页 |
| ·Weigand’s planned misunderstanding | 第17页 |
| ·Dascal’s non-standard misunderstanding | 第17-18页 |
| ·Fisher’s fake-failure understanding | 第18页 |
| ·Tzanne’s intentional misunderstanding | 第18-19页 |
| ·Zong Shihai’s research on misunderstanding | 第19页 |
| ·The study of deliberate misinterpretation from perspective of logic | 第19-21页 |
| ·The study of deliberate misinterpretation from perspective of rhetoric | 第21页 |
| ·Specific studies of deliberate misinterpretation | 第21-23页 |
| ·Achievements and limitations of the past researches | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter 3. Theoretical Background | 第24-32页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第24-28页 |
| ·The introduction of relevance theory | 第24-26页 |
| ·Relevance theory and utterance interpretation | 第26-28页 |
| ·Linguistic adaptation theory | 第28-29页 |
| ·Face theory and politeness principle | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter 4 The Classification of Deliberate Misinterpretation | 第32-40页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation of propositions | 第33-35页 |
| ·Polysemy | 第33-34页 |
| ·Homophones | 第34-35页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation of deictic expression | 第35-36页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation of indirect speech acts | 第36-38页 |
| ·Deliberate misinterpretation of conversational implicatures | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter 5 Generative Mechanism of DMI | 第40-61页 |
| ·Prerequisite—mutuality of speaker and hearer | 第42-45页 |
| ·Speaker’s utterance —Indeterminacy of the meaning or the fuzziness of the language | 第45页 |
| ·Psychological root of deliberate misinterpretation | 第45-61页 |
| ·Self-adaptation mentality and DMI | 第47-51页 |
| ·A daptation to emotions | 第48页 |
| ·A daptation to social settings | 第48-50页 |
| ·A daptation to social norms | 第50-51页 |
| ·Self-protection mentality and DMI | 第51-54页 |
| ·Special-communicative-effect-achieving mentality and DMI | 第54-56页 |
| ·C reating humorous effects | 第54页 |
| ·C reating ironic effects | 第54-55页 |
| ·C reating eye-catching effects | 第55-56页 |
| ·Relationship-improving mentality and DMI | 第56-61页 |
| ·Breaking a deadlock | 第56-57页 |
| ·R esolving interpersonal conflicts | 第57-58页 |
| ·M aintaining interpersonal harmony | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| ·Major findings | 第61-62页 |
| ·Implications of the present study | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research | 第63-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
