| Acknowledgement | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Table of Content | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| ·The Goals of the Research | 第9-10页 |
| ·Main Issues and the Significance of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·Definition | 第11-15页 |
| ·Clark’s Definition | 第11-12页 |
| ·Sanford and Garrod’s Definition | 第12-13页 |
| ·Matsui’s Definition | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2. A Brief Survey and Analysis of Past Research on Bridging | 第15-23页 |
| ·Introduction | 第15页 |
| ·Clark | 第15-16页 |
| ·Sanford and Garrod | 第16-17页 |
| ·Matsui | 第17-19页 |
| ·Current Research on Bridging in China | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter 3. Cognitive Inference in Bridging within the Framework of Relevance Theory | 第23-36页 |
| ·The Framework of Relevance Theory | 第23-27页 |
| ·Introduction | 第23-24页 |
| ·Basic Notions of Relevance and Cognition | 第24-26页 |
| ·Two principles of relevance | 第25页 |
| ·Optimal relevance | 第25-26页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第26-27页 |
| ·An Explanation for Bridging Reference Based on Relevance Theory | 第27-36页 |
| ·Implicated Assumption and Implicated Premise | 第27-30页 |
| ·Search and Expectation for Relevance in Bridging Reference | 第30-36页 |
| Chapter 4. Cognitive Models and the Phenomenon of Bridging | 第36-47页 |
| ·Complex Bridging Reference | 第36-38页 |
| ·Cognitive Models | 第38-42页 |
| ·The Origin of the Notion | 第38-39页 |
| ·Lakoff, Ungerer and Schmid’s Descriptions of Cognitive Models | 第39-40页 |
| ·Sperber and Wilson’s Descriptions of Cognitive Models | 第40-42页 |
| ·An Alternative Explanation for Bridging Reference Based on Cognitive Models | 第42-47页 |
| ·Introduction | 第42页 |
| ·An Explanation for Bridging Reference Based on Cognitive Models | 第42-45页 |
| ·A Supplementary Account | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter 5. Analyses of Bridging Felicity Judgments | 第47-56页 |
| ·Introduction | 第47-48页 |
| ·A Contrastive Analysis of Matsui’s Findings and This Author’s | 第48-52页 |
| ·Matsui’s Relevance-theoretic Criterion | 第49-51页 |
| ·Conclusions Based on the Contrastive Analyses | 第51-52页 |
| ·An Alternative Account for Bridging Felicity | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter 6. Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| ·Introduction | 第56页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第58-59页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第59-63页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第63-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-68页 |
