| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-20页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of the Author and the Work | 第10-14页 |
| ·Literary Review | 第14-17页 |
| ·Thesis Statement | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter One An Overview of Relevance Theory (RT) | 第20-38页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Human Communication | 第20-21页 |
| ·Fundamental Notions of Relevance Theory | 第21-30页 |
| ·Cognitive Context | 第22-23页 |
| ·Mutual Manifestness | 第23-26页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential Model | 第26-28页 |
| ·Relevance | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Function of Relevance Theory in the Literary Works | 第30-38页 |
| ·The Limitation of Cooperation Principle of Grice | 第30-33页 |
| ·The Function of Relevance Theory in Accounting the Literary Works | 第33-38页 |
| Chapter Two An Analysis of the Language Features of The Dumb Waiter on the Perspective of RT | 第38-65页 |
| ·Vocal features | 第38-47页 |
| ·Male Characters’Pause to Expose the Disharmony | 第39-44页 |
| ·Aggressive Tone Features of Ben | 第44-47页 |
| ·Syntactic Features | 第47-54页 |
| ·The Function of Gus’s Repetition | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Function of Ben’s Repetition | 第52-54页 |
| ·Semantic Features | 第54-65页 |
| Chapter Three An Analysis of the Themes of The Dumb Waiter on the Perspective of | 第65-80页 |
| ·The Menace Reflected by Visual Images | 第65-73页 |
| ·Space Menace Reflected by the Dumb Waiter | 第65-67页 |
| ·Psychology Menace Reflected by the Envelope | 第67-70页 |
| ·Potential Menace Reflected by the Lavatory | 第70-73页 |
| ·Unequal Relationship of Conversation Reflected by Relevance | 第73-80页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第80-83页 |
| ·The Significance of the Present Study | 第80-81页 |
| ·Deficiencies of the Study and Proposals for the Further Research | 第81-83页 |
| Notes | 第83-88页 |
| Bibliography | 第88-91页 |
| 读学位期间完成的学术论文 | 第91-92页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第92页 |
