| 中文摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-12页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-29页 |
| ·A SURVEY OF PREVIOUS RESEARCHES ON CONTEXT THEORY | 第14-24页 |
| ·Previous Research on Traditional Context Theory | 第14-21页 |
| ·Previous Researches on Cognitive Context | 第21-24页 |
| ·A SURVEY OF PREVIOUS RESEARCHES ON DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第24-29页 |
| ·What’s Discourse? | 第24-26页 |
| ·Discourse Comprehension | 第26-29页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第29-42页 |
| ·COGNITIVE CONTEXTS | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Notion of Cognitive Context | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Features of Cognitive Context | 第31-32页 |
| ·COGNITIVE CONTEXT AND RELEVANCE | 第32-38页 |
| ·Relevance | 第32-36页 |
| ·Degrees of Relevance: Effect and Effort | 第36-38页 |
| ·Cognitive Context and Relevance | 第38页 |
| ·THE COGNITIVE CONTEXT AND THE OSTENSIVE-INFERENTIAL MODEL OF COMMUNICATION | 第38-42页 |
| CHAPTER THREE A DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE CONTEXT IN DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第42-66页 |
| ·THE USE OF TRADITIONAL CONTEXT IN DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第42-46页 |
| ·The Features of Traditional Context | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Function and Application of Traditional Context | 第44-46页 |
| ·THE APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE CONTEXT TO DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第46-57页 |
| ·Discourse Comprehension: the Communication between Reader and the Discourse | 第46-47页 |
| ·Relevance--the Main Principle in Determining and Constructing Reader’s Cognitive Context | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Selection and Construction of Reader’s Cognitive Context in Discourse Comprehension | 第49-57页 |
| ·A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE CONTEXT AND TRADITIONAL CONTEXT IN DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第57-60页 |
| ·WAYS TO APPLY COGNITIVE CONTEXT TO DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第60-66页 |
| ·Writer’s Communicative Intention to Reader's Context Selection and Construction | 第61-62页 |
| ·Reader’s Cognitive Environment to the Selection of Cognitive Context | 第62-63页 |
| ·The Construction of Reader’s Encyclopedic Entries and Cultural Background Knowledge | 第63-66页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS | 第66-77页 |
| ·THE IMPORTANCE OF THE APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE CONTEXT IN DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第66-68页 |
| ·THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SELECTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF COGNITIVE CONTEXT IN DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION | 第68-69页 |
| ·PEDAGOGICAL SUGGESTIONS | 第69-77页 |
| ·At Pre-reading Stage | 第70-74页 |
| ·At During-reading Stage | 第74-75页 |
| ·At After-reading Stage | 第75-77页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第77-81页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第81-86页 |
| 论文作者在学期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第86-87页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第87页 |
