| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter II Pragmatic Competence and Pragmatic Comprehension | 第13-24页 |
| ·Communicative Competence and Pragmatic Competence | 第13-17页 |
| ·Hyme’s Communicative Competence | 第13-14页 |
| ·Bialystok’s psycholinguistic models | 第14-15页 |
| ·Canale and Swain’s Communicative Competence | 第15页 |
| ·Bachman’s Pragmatic Competence | 第15-17页 |
| ·Interlanguage Pragmatics in SLA | 第17-18页 |
| ·Studies on Pragmatic Comprehension | 第18-22页 |
| ·Definition of Pragmatic Comprehension | 第19页 |
| ·Issues in Pragmatic Comprehension | 第19-20页 |
| ·Studies on L2 Pragmatic Comprehension | 第20-22页 |
| ·Pragmatic Comprehension of Indirect Replies | 第22-24页 |
| ·Studies on indirect refusal | 第22-23页 |
| ·Studies on indirect disagreement | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter III Theoretical Frameworks of Pragmatic Comprehension | 第24-36页 |
| ·Theory of Indirect Speech Act | 第24-29页 |
| ·Review of Speech Act Theory | 第24-25页 |
| ·Classification of Illocutionary Acts | 第25-26页 |
| ·Indirect Speech Act (ISA) | 第26页 |
| ·Literal Force Hypothesis and ISA | 第26-28页 |
| ·Classification of ISA | 第28-29页 |
| ·Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第29-32页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第29-30页 |
| ·Grice’s Cooperative Principle (CP) | 第30-31页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxims in the CP | 第31-32页 |
| ·Factors Affecting Pragmatic Comprehension | 第32-36页 |
| Chapter IV Research Design and Methodology | 第36-43页 |
| ·Research Purpose and Research Questions | 第36-38页 |
| ·Research Design | 第38-42页 |
| ·The Participants | 第38页 |
| ·The Material Used in the Task | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Task of Pragmatic Comprehension | 第39-42页 |
| ·General Description of the Task | 第39页 |
| ·The Video Listening Test | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Questionnaire on the Participants’ Focus of Attention | 第40-41页 |
| ·An Excerpt from the Task | 第41-42页 |
| ·Procedures for the Task | 第42页 |
| ·The Methodology for Data Analysis | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter V Results and Interpretation | 第43-71页 |
| ·Description and Interpretation of the Results | 第43-53页 |
| ·Difference of Correct Interpretation between HI Group and LO Group | 第43-47页 |
| ·Difference of Misinterpretation between the HI Group and the LO Group | 第47-49页 |
| ·Difference in Focus of Attention between HI Group and LO Group | 第49-53页 |
| ·Focus of Attention and Comprehension of Indirect Replies | 第53-58页 |
| ·Focus of Attention and Correct Interpretation of Indirect Replies | 第54-56页 |
| ·Focus of Attention and Misinterpretation of Indirect Replies | 第56-58页 |
| ·Factors Affecting Comprehension of Indirect Replies | 第58-71页 |
| ·Contextual Factors in Comprehension of Indirect Replies | 第58-63页 |
| ·Contextual Cue in Negotiation | 第59-62页 |
| ·Indirectness of Request in the scene of Indirect Refusal | 第62-63页 |
| ·Linguistic Factors in Comprehension of Indirect Replies | 第63-67页 |
| ·Semantic Denotation in Indirect Replies | 第63-65页 |
| ·Markedness of the Interrogative Sentence in Indirect Disagreement | 第65-67页 |
| ·Phonological Factors in Indirect Replies | 第67-68页 |
| ·Replier’s Stress in Unmarked Interrogative Sentence | 第67页 |
| ·Replier’s Stress in Repeated / New Information | 第67-68页 |
| ·Paralinguistic Factors in Indirect Replies | 第68-71页 |
| ·Replier’s Facial Expression in Indirect Replies | 第69页 |
| ·Replier’s Action in Indirect Replies | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusion | 第71-77页 |
| ·Summary of the Present Study | 第71-74页 |
| ·Implications of the Present Study | 第74-75页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第75-76页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第76-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-82页 |
| Appendix | 第82-95页 |
