| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract (English Version) | 第8-10页 |
| Abstract (Chinese Version) | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Overview of Related Studies on Discourse Analysis | 第12-13页 |
| ·Exploration into Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics | 第12页 |
| ·Remarks on Relevance of Irrelevant and Absurd Exchanges | 第12-13页 |
| ·Related Studies on Text Cohesion and Text Coherence | 第13页 |
| ·Reasons for Choosing the Topic | 第13页 |
| ·Organization of this Dissertation | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Interpretation of the Logical Thinking of Relevance Theory | 第15-25页 |
| ·Communication as an Ostensive-Inferential Process | 第16-23页 |
| ·Ostensive Behavior | 第17-19页 |
| ·Non-Demonstrative Inference | 第19-23页 |
| ·Inference of Explicature | 第20-21页 |
| ·Inference of Implicature | 第21-23页 |
| ·Pragmatic Reasoning Characterized by Abductive Nature | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Analysis of the Relation between Utterance and Context | 第25-34页 |
| ·Analysis of Variable Contexts | 第26-27页 |
| ·Appendage of Utterance to Context | 第27页 |
| ·Analysis of Linguistic Features of Spoken English | 第27-30页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory Contained in Rhetoric Narrative Utterances | 第30-34页 |
| ·Austin's and Searle's Theories about Speech Acts | 第30-31页 |
| ·Indication of Speech Act Theory in Rhetoric Narrative Utterances | 第31-34页 |
| ·Emphasis on Context | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ur-conventions and Speech Act Theory | 第32-33页 |
| ·Discourse and Narration | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Identification of Utterance Meaning | 第34-51页 |
| ·Two levels of Utterance Meaning | 第35-37页 |
| ·Classification of Utterance Meaning | 第37-39页 |
| ·Identification of Explicating | 第37-38页 |
| ·Identification of Implicature | 第38-39页 |
| ·Influence of Successful and Unsuccessful Turning on Utterance Meanings | 第39-44页 |
| ·Finding out Utterance Meaning in Conventional Relation between Sentences | 第40-42页 |
| ·Finding Meanings by Means of Presupposition | 第40-41页 |
| ·Inference of Entailment | 第41-42页 |
| ·Determination of Relation between Words | 第42页 |
| ·Discovery of Something Relevant in Conversational Manners | 第42-44页 |
| ·Meanings in Obscure Utterances | 第42-43页 |
| ·Expressions in a Roundabout Way | 第43-44页 |
| ·Expressions in Ambiguous Sentences | 第44页 |
| ·Polite and Impolite Language in Utterance Meanings | 第44-47页 |
| ·Pragmatic Distance | 第45-46页 |
| ·Polite Utterance | 第46-47页 |
| ·Understanding of Locutionary Act and Illocutionary Act | 第47-51页 |
| ·Locutionary Act | 第47页 |
| ·Illocutionary Act | 第47-49页 |
| ·Classification of Illocutionary Act | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第51-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-53页 |
