| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter one Literature Review | 第14-20页 |
| ·Traditional View of Context | 第14-17页 |
| ·A Brief View of the Development of the Traditional Approach to Context | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Properties of the Static Context | 第16-17页 |
| ·Grice's Co-operative Principle and Mutual Knowledge | 第17-20页 |
| ·Co-operative Principle | 第17-18页 |
| ·Mutual Knowledge | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two The Influences of Cognition on Communication | 第20-30页 |
| ·A Brief View of the Cognitive Process of Communication | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Influences of Cognitive Elements on Communication | 第23-30页 |
| ·Sensation | 第23-24页 |
| ·Language Decoding | 第24-26页 |
| ·Hypotheses Distinguishment | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Activation of Psychological Schema | 第27-28页 |
| ·Inference | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three The Context and the Relevance Theory | 第30-41页 |
| ·The Context and the Relevance of Utterance | 第30-35页 |
| ·Two Determinative Elements of Relevance | 第31-34页 |
| ·Contextual Effect | 第31-32页 |
| ·Processing Effort | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Context and Communication | 第35-41页 |
| ·The Ostensive-inferential Communication | 第35-37页 |
| ·Mutual Knowledge | 第37-39页 |
| ·A Choice of the Context | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Four Application to Pragmatic Competence with the Relevance-theoretical Approach to Context | 第41-50页 |
| ·The Development of Listening Ability | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Development of Reading Ability | 第45-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-54页 |
