| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter 3 The Nature of Reading Comprehension | 第19-29页 |
| ·Reading comprehension as a process of communication between the writer and the reader | 第19-23页 |
| ·Using the text to facilitate communication between the writer and the reader | 第21-22页 |
| ·Dynamic involvement in communication between the writer and the reader | 第22-23页 |
| ·Reading comprehension as a pragmatic inference-making process between the writer and the reader | 第23-27页 |
| ·Defining characteristics of pragmatic inference | 第24-26页 |
| ·Types of pragmatic inference information | 第26-27页 |
| ·Reading comprehension as a process of seeking optimal relevance between the writer and the reader | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 4 Relevance Theory and Reading Comprehension | 第29-40页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness of cognitive environments: the basis for communication in reading comprehension | 第29-31页 |
| ·Definition of cognitive environment | 第29-30页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness of cognitive environments | 第30-31页 |
| ·Ostensive-Inferential communication in reading comprehension | 第31-33页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential communication in reading comprehension | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ostension on the part of the writer | 第32-33页 |
| ·Inference on the part of the reader | 第33页 |
| ·Contextual effect, processing effort, relevance and successful communication in reading comprehension | 第33-35页 |
| ·Contextual effect and conditions for relevance | 第33-34页 |
| ·Processing effort and optimal relevance | 第34-35页 |
| ·The role of relevance theory in discourse interpretation | 第35-38页 |
| ·To determine the explicit meaning (explicature) | 第35-36页 |
| ·To determine the implicit meaning (implicature) | 第36-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter 5 A Survey Investigation of Chinese College Students' Pragmatic Inference Abilities in Reading Comprehension | 第40-54页 |
| ·Purposes | 第40-42页 |
| ·Introduction | 第40-41页 |
| ·Purposes of the investigation | 第41-42页 |
| ·Subjects | 第42页 |
| ·Instrument | 第42-43页 |
| ·Sources of the questions | 第43-44页 |
| ·Procedure | 第44页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第44-51页 |
| ·The distribution of correlation between grammatical competence and pragmatic inference ability tests results of the 94 subjects | 第44-46页 |
| ·The distribution of grammatical competence tests and pragmatic inference ability tests between more successful and less successful participants | 第46-51页 |
| ·The distribution of the subjects' pragmatic inference test results of the total of 94 participants | 第51-52页 |
| ·Exploration of possible factors affecting pragmatic inference in English reading comprehension | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 6 Suggestions for English Reading Comprehension Teaching | 第54-59页 |
| ·Suggestions for the teaching of reading comprehension | 第54-58页 |
| ·Cultivating students' inference strategies in reading comprehension | 第54-57页 |
| ·Promoting English learners' ability in guessing the meaning of words | 第55-56页 |
| ·Promoting English learners' separating the ostensive facts from the implicated opinions | 第56页 |
| ·Promoting English learners' evaluating the main idea and supporting details | 第56-57页 |
| ·Promoting English learners' understanding relations within the sentence | 第57页 |
| ·Procedures of pragmatic inference in reading comprehension | 第57-58页 |
| ·Bridging the information gap in reading comprehension | 第58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-68页 |
| Appendices | 第68-74页 |
| Appendix 1: A Grammatical Competence Test | 第68-71页 |
| Appendix 2: A Pragmatic Inference Ability Test | 第71-74页 |
