| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-18页 |
| ·Research on Literary Communication | 第12-16页 |
| ·Literary Studies: an Overview | 第12-14页 |
| ·Literary Pragmatics | 第14-16页 |
| ·Problems with Previous Studies | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Three Relevance Theory in the Context of Literature | 第18-28页 |
| ·Basic concepts of Relevance Theory | 第18-21页 |
| ·Relevance Theory in the Context of Literature | 第21-28页 |
| ·The Multi-layer of Communication Constrained by Relevance | 第21-22页 |
| ·More Processing Efforts | 第22-23页 |
| ·Reinterpretation of the Maximal and the Optimal Relevance | 第23-25页 |
| ·Weak Implicature | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Application of Relevance Theory | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Four A Relevance-Theoretic Foundation of ITM | 第28-50页 |
| ·Reading Process | 第28-35页 |
| ·Double-inferential Process | 第28-31页 |
| ·Contextualization: Attention and Redundancy | 第31-32页 |
| ·Bridging Inference: Divergent and Convergent Interpretation | 第32-33页 |
| ·“Twist”Analysis | 第33-35页 |
| ·Figurative Language Interpretation | 第35-42页 |
| ·Interpretive Resemblance | 第36-38页 |
| ·Mutually Manifest Cognitive Environment | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Balance between Cognitive Effects and Processing Efforts | 第39-41页 |
| ·Development: a Further Cognitive Component | 第41-42页 |
| ·Aesthetic Effects | 第42-50页 |
| ·Aesthetic Communication | 第43-45页 |
| ·Features of Non-propositional Effects | 第45-46页 |
| ·Marginally Salient Assumptions | 第46-48页 |
| ·Tension: a Further Cognitive Mechanism | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five The Construction and Application of ITM | 第50-66页 |
| ·The Necessity of an ITM | 第50-53页 |
| ·Philosophical Implications: a Semiotic Perspective | 第50-52页 |
| ·Theoretic Motives | 第52-53页 |
| ·A Relevance-based ITM | 第53-61页 |
| ·The Core of Literary Communication | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Role of Inference | 第54-55页 |
| ·Tuning: Emotion and Reasoning | 第55-57页 |
| ·Mechanism of ITM | 第57-58页 |
| ·Fuzzy Treatment of ITM | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Psychological Gestalt Cognitive Effects | 第59-61页 |
| ·Application of ITM | 第61-66页 |
| ·Analysis of a Short Story | 第62-65页 |
| ·Evaluation of ITM | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第66-68页 |
| ·Contributions of the Study | 第66-67页 |
| ·Limitations and implications | 第67-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-74页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第74页 |
