| AcknowledgementS | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Meaning and implied meaning | 第11-12页 |
| ·Semantic,pragmatic,and cognitive views on meaning | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Background of Implicature | 第16-41页 |
| ·Non-natural meaning and conversational implicature | 第16-18页 |
| ·Grice's theory of communication and implicature | 第18-26页 |
| ·The generation of conversational implicatures | 第22页 |
| ·Maxim Violation,clash,and "Flouting" | 第22-26页 |
| ·The difference of implicatures | 第26-31页 |
| ·The analysis of generalized implicatures | 第28-30页 |
| ·Conversational implicatures and conventional implicatures | 第30-31页 |
| ·Developments in the analysis of implicature | 第31-38页 |
| ·The relevance theoretic approach to implicature | 第31-35页 |
| ·The neo-Gricean approach to implicature | 第35-38页 |
| ·Issues and criticisms of the theory of implicature | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Three Experiential Realism and Implicature | 第41-60页 |
| ·An experiential definition of pragmatics and pragmatic meaning | 第41-42页 |
| ·The objectivist paradigm in the study of linguistic meaning | 第42-45页 |
| ·Experiential realism and meaning | 第45-46页 |
| ·Some fundamental notions and principles of experiential realism | 第46-52页 |
| ·The important issues in the embodiment hypothesis | 第47-49页 |
| ·An important principle of experiential realism | 第49-51页 |
| ·The interpretation of connectionist interactive-activation model | 第51-52页 |
| ·The experiential perspective on reasoning and internalization | 第52-55页 |
| ·Reasoning | 第52-53页 |
| ·The issue of internalization | 第53-55页 |
| ·An experiential approach to inferences in communication | 第55-60页 |
| ·The experiential grounding of inferences of conjunction "and" | 第55-58页 |
| ·The experiential grounding of inferences of conjunction "but" | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Four Experiential Analysis of Some Cognitive Linguistic Tropes | 第60-74页 |
| ·Metaphor,tautology,irony,understatement and overstatement | 第60-65页 |
| ·The analysis of conceptual metaphor | 第60-62页 |
| ·The analysis of tautology | 第62-63页 |
| ·The analysis of irony | 第63-64页 |
| ·The analysis of overstatement and understatement | 第64-65页 |
| ·Cognitive models of communication and inferences | 第65-74页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第74-78页 |
| References | 第78-82页 |
