| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第6-7页 |
| Transcription Conventions | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·Introduction | 第10页 |
| ·Rationale | 第10-11页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Data and Methodology | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-26页 |
| ·Introduction | 第14页 |
| ·Studies on Challenge of Witnesses/defendants' Testimony in Cross-examination | 第14-16页 |
| ·Domestic researches | 第14-15页 |
| ·Overseas researches | 第15-16页 |
| ·Overview of the Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第16-25页 |
| ·Conversational implicature in ordinary talk | 第17-24页 |
| ·Conversational implicature in the legal context | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第26-34页 |
| ·Introduction | 第26页 |
| ·Levinson's Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第26-29页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature and Challenge of Testimony | 第29-31页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Manifestation of Conversational Implicuture in Cross-examination. | 第34-41页 |
| ·Introduction | 第34页 |
| ·Absence of Particularized Implicature | 第34-36页 |
| ·Explicitness | 第36-38页 |
| ·Redundancy | 第38-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter 5 Deriving Conversational Implicature in Cross-examination | 第41-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第41页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature-deriving Strategies | 第41-50页 |
| ·Using Q-principle to derive conversational implicature | 第41-43页 |
| ·Using I-principle to derive conversational implicature | 第43-47页 |
| ·Using M-principle to derive conversational implicature | 第47-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 6 The Function of Conversational Implicaure in Challenging | 第51-60页 |
| ·Introduction | 第51页 |
| ·Challenging Objectivity | 第51-54页 |
| ·Challenging the objectivity of the source of testimony | 第51-52页 |
| ·Challenging the objectivity of the contents of testimony | 第52-54页 |
| ·Challenging Consistency | 第54-56页 |
| ·Challenging consistency in trial testimony | 第54-55页 |
| ·Challenging consistency between statements in prior records and cross-examination | 第55-56页 |
| ·Challenging Qualifications | 第56-57页 |
| ·Challenging Capability | 第57-59页 |
| ·Summary | 第59-60页 |
| Chapter7 Conclusion | 第60-64页 |
| ·Summary of the Present Study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第61页 |
| ·Implications | 第61-62页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第62-64页 |
| Appendix Data Used in the Present Research | 第64-65页 |
| References: | 第65-67页 |
