| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第11-15页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第15-18页 |
| ·AIM OF RESEARCH | 第15-16页 |
| ·RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第16页 |
| ·OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPER TWO AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCHES ON IMPLICATURE | 第18-32页 |
| ·GRICEAN PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO IMPLICATURE | 第18-23页 |
| ·POST-GRICEAN DEVELOPMENTS | 第23-28页 |
| ·Horn’s Q Principle and R Principle | 第23-26页 |
| ·Levinson’s Principles of Implicature | 第26-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS OF PREVIOUS VIEWS OF IMPLICATURE | 第28-30页 |
| ·THE VIEWPOINTS OF THE PRESENT STUDY OF IMPLICATURE | 第30-31页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第31-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETIC FRAMEWORK —RELEVANCE THEORY | 第32-42页 |
| ·OUTLINE OF RELEVANCE THEORY | 第32-41页 |
| ·Definition of Relevance | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Degree of Relevance | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第37-40页 |
| ·Context within the Framework of Relevance Theory | 第40-41页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第41-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RELEVANCE-THEORETIC APPROACH TO IMPLICATURES | 第42-61页 |
| ·GRICEAN CLASSIFICATION OF IMPLICATURE | 第42-48页 |
| ·What is Said and What is Implicated | 第42-44页 |
| ·Conventional and Conversational Implicatures | 第44-48页 |
| ·RELEVANCE THEORY ON GRICEAN IMPLICATURE | 第48-55页 |
| ·Redefinition of Gricean Implicature | 第48-49页 |
| ·Reclassification of Gricean Implicature: Explicature and Implicature | 第49-55页 |
| ·CLASSIFICATION OF IMPLICATURE FROM RELEVANCE-THEORETIC POINT OF VIEW | 第55-60页 |
| ·Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions | 第55-56页 |
| ·Strong Implicature and Weak Implicature | 第56-59页 |
| ·Features of Relevance-theoretic Implicature | 第59-60页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第60-61页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE THE INTERPRETATION OF IMPLICATURE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF RELEVENCE THEORY | 第61-76页 |
| ·THE RELEVANCE-THEORETIC INFERENTIAL PROCEDURE | 第61-68页 |
| ·Two Criteria for Achieving Optimal Relevance | 第61-64页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic Comprehension Procedure | 第64-68页 |
| ·OPTIMAL RELEVANCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES | 第68-71页 |
| ·First Satisfactory Interpretation Is the Only Satisfactory Interpretation | 第69-70页 |
| ·Extra Effort Demanded Implies Extra Effects | 第70-71页 |
| ·IDENTIFICATION OF IMPLICATURE WITHIN RELEVANCE THEORY | 第71-74页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第74-76页 |
| CHAPTER SIX REINTERPRETATION OF IMPLICATURE DERIVED FROM A METAPHOR | 第76-99页 |
| ·THE EMERGENCE PROBLEM | 第76-77页 |
| ·RELEVANCE THEORY AND EMERGENCE PROBLEM | 第77-85页 |
| ·THE WEAKNESS OF RELEVANCE-THEORETIC INTERPRETATION OF IMPLICATURE DERIVED FROM A METAPHOR | 第85页 |
| ·CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION THEORY AND EMERGENCE PROBLEM | 第85-88页 |
| ·INTERPRETATION OF IMPLICATURE DERIVED FROM A METAPHOR WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF RELEVANCE-ORIENTED CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION | 第88-97页 |
| ·The Linguistic Philosophical Similarities between Relevance Theory and Conceptual Integration Theory | 第88-91页 |
| ·Application of Relevance-oriented Cognitive Pragmatic Model to the Interpretation of Implicature Derived from a Metaphor | 第91-97页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第97-99页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION | 第99-104页 |
| ·FINDINGS OF THE THESIS | 第99-101页 |
| ·SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FINDINGS | 第101-102页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第102-104页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第104-108页 |
| 攻读学位期间主要科研成果目录 | 第108页 |
