| Acknowledgments | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-11页 |
| Ⅰ． The Studies of Context | 第11-20页 |
| 1．1 The Overseas Scholars' Study of context | 第11-17页 |
| 1．1．1 B．Malinowski's Opinion | 第11-12页 |
| 1．1．2 J．R．Firth's | 第12-13页 |
| 1．1．3 M．A．K．Halliday's Opinion | 第13-15页 |
| 1．1．4 D．H．Hymes'Opinion | 第15-16页 |
| 1．1．5 J．Lyons'Opinion | 第16-17页 |
| 1．2 The Chinese Scholars'Study of Context | 第17-20页 |
| Ⅱ． The Classification of Context | 第20-28页 |
| 2．1 Linguistic Context | 第20-24页 |
| 2．1．1 Immediate Linguistic Context | 第21-22页 |
| 2．1．2 Remote Linguistic Context | 第22-24页 |
| 2．2 Non-Linguistic Context | 第24-28页 |
| 2．2．1 Situational Context | 第25页 |
| 2．2．2 Cultural Context | 第25-26页 |
| 2．2．3 Cognitive Context | 第26-28页 |
| Ⅲ． The Functions of Context | 第28-47页 |
| 3．1 The Functions of Context from Semantic Perspective | 第28-37页 |
| 3．1．1 Semantic Co-occurrence | 第28-30页 |
| 3．1．2 Disambiguation | 第30-37页 |
| 3．2 The Functions of Context from Pragmatic Perspective | 第37-47页 |
| 3．2．1 Selectional Restrictions | 第37-41页 |
| 3．2．2 Interpretation | 第41-47页 |
| Ⅳ． The Application of Context in the Teaching of Reading | 第47-57页 |
| 4．1 The Application of Linguistic Context | 第47-53页 |
| 4．1．1 The Application of Context in Inferring the Meanings of New Words | 第48-50页 |
| 4．1．2The Application of Context in Eliminating the Ambiguity or Vagueness in Reading Material | 第50-51页 |
| 4．1．3 The Application of Context in Anticipating the Coming Content of Reading Material | 第51-53页 |
| 4．2 The Application of Non-linguistic Context | 第53-57页 |
| 4．2．1 The Necessity to Reduce the Cultural Differences between the Reader and the Writer | 第53-54页 |
| 4．2．2 The Importance of Taking the Temporal Background of Reading Material into Consideration | 第54-55页 |
| 4．2．3 The Importance of an Intimate Understanding of the Writer in Reading | 第55-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-59页 |
