| Abstract (English version) | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract (Chinese version) | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-27页 |
| ·Presupposition and related terms | 第13-20页 |
| ·Presupposition | 第13-14页 |
| ·Presupposition and assertion | 第14-16页 |
| ·Presupposition and entailment | 第16-18页 |
| ·Presupposition and implicature | 第18-20页 |
| ·Structure of clauses | 第20-22页 |
| ·Information structure: given and new information | 第20-21页 |
| ·Thematic structure: Theme and Rheme | 第21页 |
| ·Types of clauses: unmarked and marked | 第21-22页 |
| ·Context: narrow sense and broad sense | 第22-24页 |
| ·Objective of the thesis | 第24-25页 |
| ·Significance of the present research | 第25页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Two Presupposition | 第27-48页 |
| ·Brief review on presupposition | 第27-31页 |
| ·Semantic approach | 第27-29页 |
| ·Pragmatic approach | 第29-31页 |
| ·Different definitions of pragmatic presupposition | 第31-34页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition as the speaker’s assumptions about the context of the utterance | 第31-32页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition as the felicity condition for the performance of a Speech act | 第32-33页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition as the common knowledge or backgroundknowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer | 第33-34页 |
| ·Our approach to presupposition | 第34-44页 |
| ·Integration of semantic and pragmatic presuppositions | 第34-37页 |
| ·Re-analysis of presupposition triggers | 第37-41页 |
| ·Types of presupposition by Yule (6 types) | 第41-43页 |
| ·Reclassification of types of presupposition (3 types) | 第43-44页 |
| ·Features of pragmatic presupposition | 第44-48页 |
| ·Being appropriate to the context | 第44-46页 |
| ·Being common to the speaker and the hearer | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Three Manipulation of Presupposition in Effective Communication | 第48-73页 |
| ·Devices that indicate the arrangement of presupposition | 第48-58页 |
| ·Phonological devices | 第49-53页 |
| ·Nucleus and information focus | 第50-51页 |
| ·N ucleus, focus and presupposition | 第51-53页 |
| ·L exical devices | 第53-54页 |
| ·Syntactic devices | 第54-57页 |
| ·Summary: integrated employment of these devices | 第57-58页 |
| ·Contribution of presupposition to effective communication | 第58-73页 |
| ·Influence of pragmatic presupposition on the shift of information focus | 第61-66页 |
| ·Contribution to coherence | 第62-64页 |
| ·Contribution to topic consistency and continuation | 第64-66页 |
| ·Role of pragmatic presupposition in the flow of information | 第66-73页 |
| ·Principle of economy | 第68-70页 |
| ·Principle of informativeness | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter Four Mutual Influence of Context and Presupposition | 第73-84页 |
| ·Constraints of context on presupposition | 第73-79页 |
| ·Constraints of co-text (context in the narrow sense) | 第74-76页 |
| ·Constraints of situational knowledge | 第76-77页 |
| ·Constraints of background knowledge (encyclopedic knowledge) | 第77-79页 |
| ·Reaction of presupposition to context | 第79-84页 |
| ·On the sentence itself | 第80-81页 |
| ·On the following sentence | 第81-84页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第84-87页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第84-85页 |
| ·Points for further research | 第85-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-88页 |
