| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| Content | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Research Background | 第9页 |
| ·Objectives and Methodology | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第11页 |
| ·The Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-27页 |
| ·Pragmatic Vagueness | 第13-21页 |
| ·The Research on Vagueness Abroad and Home | 第13-17页 |
| ·Vagueness Study Abroad | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Domestic Development of Vagueness Study | 第15-17页 |
| ·Definition of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第17-18页 |
| ·Features and Nature of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第18-19页 |
| ·Classification of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第19页 |
| ·Terminology | 第19-21页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第21-27页 |
| ·Relevance and Cognition | 第21-23页 |
| ·Relevance and Communication | 第23-25页 |
| ·Relevance and Comprehension | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter 3 A Relevance-Theory-Based Interpretative Mechanism of PragmaticVagueness | 第27-46页 |
| ·Basic Conditions for Successful Interpretation of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Shared Cognitive Environment | 第30-32页 |
| ·An Extending Context | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Communicative Intention Recognized | 第33-35页 |
| ·Key Factors Involved in the Interpretation of Pragmatic Vagueness and TheirRelationships | 第35-39页 |
| ·The Cognitive Principle of Relevance | 第35-36页 |
| ·Extending Cognitive Context | 第36-37页 |
| ·Linguistic Form of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第37-38页 |
| ·Explicature | 第38-39页 |
| ·Implicature | 第39页 |
| ·The Working Procedure of Inference under the Interpretative Mechanism ofPragmatic Vagueness | 第39-42页 |
| ·Main Features of the Interpretative Mechanism of Pragmatic Vagueness | 第42-46页 |
| ·Pervasive Function of Cognitive Context | 第42-43页 |
| ·The General Direction from Decoding to Inference with Exceptions | 第43页 |
| ·Decoding and Inference Alternately Dominant in the Two Stages ofInterpretation | 第43-44页 |
| ·Construction and Selection Following a Path of Least Effort | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Interpretation of Pragmatic Vagueness in Peter Pan with thedeveloped mechanism | 第46-69页 |
| ·Synopsis of the Novel | 第47页 |
| ·Interpretation Analysis of Excerpts from Peter Pan | 第47-69页 |
| ·Interpretation Analysis of Non-metaphorical Pragmatic Vagueness | 第48-57页 |
| ·Interpretation of Approximation | 第48-50页 |
| ·Interpretation of Fuzziness | 第50-52页 |
| ·Interpretation of Generality | 第52-53页 |
| ·Interpretation of Ambiguity | 第53-55页 |
| ·Interpretation of Ambivalence | 第55-57页 |
| ·Interpretation Analysis of Metaphorical Pragmatic Vagueness | 第57-67页 |
| ·Interpretation of Metaphor | 第57-60页 |
| ·Interpretation of Meiosis | 第60-63页 |
| ·Interpretation of Irony | 第63-65页 |
| ·Interpretation of hyperbole | 第65-67页 |
| ·Comparison between Interpretation Processes of Non-metaphorical Pragmatic Vagueness and Metaphorical Pragmatic Vagueness | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| ·Summary of the Major Findings | 第69-70页 |
| ·Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Present Study | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第71-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-74页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第74-75页 |
| About the author | 第75页 |
