| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-11页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| 2. An Overview of Relevance Theory | 第14-25页 |
| ·Background and origin of Relevance Theory | 第14-15页 |
| ·Concepts related to Relevance Theory | 第15-25页 |
| ·The definition of Relevance and the degrees of Relevance | 第15-17页 |
| ·The definition of Relevance | 第15-16页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance | 第16-17页 |
| ·Contextual effect and conditions for relevance | 第17-19页 |
| ·The definition of contextual effect | 第17-18页 |
| ·The relationship between contextual effect and relevance | 第18-19页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness | 第19-22页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness of cognitive environment | 第19-20页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness of informative intention and communicative intention | 第20-22页 |
| ·Explicatures and implicatures | 第22-23页 |
| ·RT's ostensive-inferential communication | 第23-25页 |
| ·Ostension from the writer | 第24页 |
| ·Inference by the reader | 第24-25页 |
| 3. Reading Comprehension | 第25-33页 |
| ·The definition of reading | 第25页 |
| ·The nature of reading | 第25-28页 |
| ·Reading as an interactive process of communication | 第25-26页 |
| ·Reading as a process of seeking optimal relevance | 第26-27页 |
| ·Reading as a process of making inference from the ostensive-inferential communication | 第27-28页 |
| ·Current Problems in Reading comprehension | 第28-33页 |
| ·Shortage of vocabulary understanding and sentence Understanding especially in a dynamic context | 第29-30页 |
| ·Large gap between the writer's schemata and the reader's | 第30-32页 |
| ·Lack of knowledge about text structure | 第32-33页 |
| 4. The Application of Relevance Theory to Reading Comprehension | 第33-48页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness as the premise of reading comprehension | 第33-34页 |
| ·Reading comprehension based on context | 第34-36页 |
| ·Identification of explicatures and implicatures | 第36页 |
| ·Inference from the ostensive information | 第36-39页 |
| ·An experiment with the teaching of reading | 第39-45页 |
| ·Purposes | 第39页 |
| ·Subjects | 第39-40页 |
| ·Treatment | 第40-41页 |
| ·Measuring progress in reading comprehension | 第41页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第41-43页 |
| ·Results of the experiment | 第43-44页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第44-45页 |
| ·A Practical Application of Relevance Theory to Reading Comprehension | 第45-48页 |
| 5. Solutions to the Current Problems in Reading Comprehension | 第48-57页 |
| ·Strengthening the learners' ability in guessing the word meaning from the dynamic context | 第48-50页 |
| ·Promoting the learners' ability in finding out the stated or implied main idea from the ostensive supporting part | 第50-52页 |
| ·Cultivating the learners' ability in analyzing the discourse structure | 第52-54页 |
| ·Bridging the information gap between the writer and the reader | 第54-57页 |
| ·Lexical gap | 第55-56页 |
| ·Cultural gap | 第56-57页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-61页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第61-63页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第63-68页 |
