| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| ·The rationale of the study | 第8-9页 |
| ·The objective of the study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Data collection | 第10-11页 |
| ·The structural organization of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Conversational implicature and its properties | 第13-26页 |
| ·Kinds of conversational implicature | 第13-16页 |
| ·Kinds of conversational implicatures in the Classical Gricean theory | 第13-14页 |
| ·Kinds of conversational implicatures in the Neo-Gricean theory | 第14-16页 |
| ·The properties of conversational implicature | 第16-19页 |
| ·Reinforceability as a property | 第19-26页 |
| ·Definition of Reinforceability | 第20-24页 |
| ·Studies on reinforceability | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Reinforceability manifested in English | 第26-41页 |
| ·Realizations | 第26-35页 |
| ·Phonetic features | 第26-28页 |
| ·Lexical features | 第28-33页 |
| ·Syntactic features | 第33-35页 |
| ·Communicative functions | 第35-37页 |
| ·Distributional features | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Four Reinforceability manifested in Chinese | 第41-53页 |
| ·Realizations | 第41-48页 |
| ·Phonetic features | 第41-43页 |
| ·Lexical features | 第43-45页 |
| ·Syntactic features | 第45-48页 |
| ·Communicative functions | 第48-50页 |
| ·Distributional features | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter Five Similarities and differences of reinforceability manifested in Chinese and English | 第53-60页 |
| ·An overall account of manifestations of reinforceability | 第53-54页 |
| ·Metalinguistic negation as manifestation of reinforceability | 第54-55页 |
| ·Similarities of reinforceability in its manifestation | 第55-57页 |
| ·Differences of reinforceability in its manifestation | 第57页 |
| ·Influencing factors | 第57-60页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第60-63页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第60页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第60-62页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第61页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第61-62页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第62-63页 |
| References | 第63-66页 |
| Appendix | 第66-67页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第67页 |
