| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-21页 |
| 1．1 The object of this study | 第11-12页 |
| 1．2 The rationale underlying the present study | 第12-17页 |
| 1．2．1 From the level of media studies | 第12-13页 |
| 1．2．2 From the level of evidentiality studies | 第13-16页 |
| 1．2．3 From the level of Relevance Theory studies | 第16-17页 |
| 1．3 Research questions | 第17-18页 |
| 1．4 Notes on research methods and data collection | 第18-19页 |
| 1．5 Layout of this thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第21-33页 |
| 2．1 Introduction to evidentiality | 第21-23页 |
| 2．2 Previous studies on evidentiality | 第23-31页 |
| 2．2．1 Chafe and Nichols: Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology | 第24-26页 |
| 2．2．2 Elly Ifantidou | 第26-29页 |
| 2．2．3 Ilana Mushin | 第29-30页 |
| 2．2．4 Special issue on evidentiality | 第30-31页 |
| 2．3 Significance of present study on evidentiality | 第31-32页 |
| 2．4 Conclusion | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第33-52页 |
| 3．1 Working definition of evidentiality | 第33-34页 |
| 3．2 Gricean theory with regard to human communication | 第34-36页 |
| 3．3 Relevance Theory (RT) | 第36-50页 |
| 3．3．1 Introduction to RT | 第36-38页 |
| 3．3．2 Communication, inference and evidentiality | 第38-40页 |
| 3．3．3 Principle of relevance and evidentiality | 第40-43页 |
| 3．3．4 Implicatures and explicatures of relevance and evidentiality | 第43-50页 |
| 3．3．4．1 Conversational implicature of Gricean theory | 第43-45页 |
| 3．3．4．2 Implicature of RT | 第45-46页 |
| 3．3．4．3 Explicature of RT | 第46-50页 |
| 3．4 Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Four: Evidentiality in Entertainment News | 第52-77页 |
| 4．1 Entertainment news | 第52-60页 |
| 4．1．1 News | 第52-55页 |
| 4．1．2 Entertainment news | 第55-58页 |
| 4．1．3 The reason to choose newspaper as media at the present study | 第58-60页 |
| 4．2 Evidentiality in entertainment news within relevance theory | 第60-75页 |
| 4．2．1 Evidentiality as specification of source of information | 第61-65页 |
| 4．2．2 Evidentiality as specification of the precision degree or truth or appropriateness of a category label | 第65-69页 |
| 4．2．3 Evidentiality as specification of the probability of the truth | 第69-73页 |
| 4．2．4 Evidentiality as specification of the expectations concerning the probability of a statement | 第73-75页 |
| 4．3 Conclusion | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusion | 第77-83页 |
| 5．1 Findings of the present study | 第77页 |
| 5．2 Implications of the present study | 第77-78页 |
| 5．3 Limitations of the present study | 第78-80页 |
| 5．4 Suggestions for further study | 第80-83页 |
| Notes | 第83-84页 |
| References | 第84-88页 |
