| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| 1.1 Research background | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Research questions | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Aims and significance | 第13页 |
| 1.4 Research methodology and data collection | 第13-14页 |
| 1.5 Structure of the thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-27页 |
| 2.1 Definitions of misunderstanding | 第15-18页 |
| 2.1.1 Definitions proposed by previous scholars | 第15-17页 |
| 2.1.2 Definitions proposed by the author | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2 Classifications of misunderstanding | 第18-20页 |
| 2.2.1 The meaning-based standard | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2.2 The result-based standard | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2.3 The diagnosis＆treatment-based standard | 第20页 |
| 2.3 Different approaches to misunderstanding | 第20-26页 |
| 2.3.1 The philosophical approach | 第21页 |
| 2.3.2 The pragmatic approach | 第21-23页 |
| 2.3.3 The cognitive approach | 第23-25页 |
| 2.3.4 The cross-cultural approach | 第25-26页 |
| 2.4 Toward a synthesis | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework of the Study | 第27-43页 |
| 3.1 Relevance Theory | 第27-35页 |
| 3.1.1 The principle of relevance | 第28-30页 |
| 3.1.2 Cognitive context | 第30-32页 |
| 3.1.3 Communication as an ostensive-inferential process | 第32-35页 |
| 3.2 Schema Theory | 第35-42页 |
| 3.2.1 Basic notions of Schema Theory | 第35-37页 |
| 3.2.2 Categorization of schema | 第37-38页 |
| 3.2.3 Functions of schema | 第38-42页 |
| 3.3 An Integration between Relevance Theory and Schema Theory | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter 4 A Relevance-schematic Account of the Cause of Misunderstanding in Verbal Communication | 第43-63页 |
| 4.1 The cause of misunderstanding on the speaker's part | 第43-48页 |
| 4.1.1 The speaker's failure to predict the hearer's relevant schema | 第43-44页 |
| 4.1.2 The speaker's failure to make manifest the communicative intention | 第44-46页 |
| 4.1.3 The speaker's failure to activate the hearer's relevant schema | 第46-48页 |
| 4.2 The working mechanism of context as contributing factors of misunderstanding | 第48-57页 |
| 4.2.1 The constraints imposed by physical context on utterance interpretation | 第48-53页 |
| 4.2.2 The dynamism of cognitive context and the interlocutors | 第53-56页 |
| 4.2.3 The difference in salience to interlocutors of the context in operation | 第56-57页 |
| 4.3 The cause of misunderstanding on the hearer's part | 第57-63页 |
| 4.3.1 The hearer's failure to select the right schema | 第58-60页 |
| 4.3.2 The Difference in inferential mechanism between interlocutors | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第63-66页 |
| 5.1 Major findings | 第63-64页 |
| 5.2 Limitations and suggestions for future research | 第64-66页 |
| References | 第66-70页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第70-71页 |
