| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| ·The Initiation of Perlocution | 第8-10页 |
| ·Why Study Perlocution | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Domain of Present Study | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two An Anatomy of Perlocution: What is Perlocution | 第13-21页 |
| ·Defining Features of Perlocution | 第13-16页 |
| ·Perlocution: Effect or Act | 第16-18页 |
| ·Perlocution: Act or Mental Act | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Three The Causation Thesis: How Perlocution is Produced | 第21-31页 |
| ·What is Causation Thesis: Three Types of Causation | 第21-23页 |
| ·Critique of the Causation Thesis | 第23-28页 |
| ·Impossibility to Account for Perlocution within Linguistic Pragmatics | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Four Perlocution: An Interface between Words and the World | 第31-42页 |
| ·Possible Drections of Fit between Mind, Words and the World | 第32-35页 |
| ·How Words and the World Interact | 第35-37页 |
| ·A Perlocutionary Formula of Words and the World | 第37-39页 |
| ·Perlocutionary Cooperative Principle: Words and the World in Communication | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第42-44页 |
| References | 第44-46页 |
