| Acknowledgement | 第1-8页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第8-12页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第12-13页 |
| Abstract in English | 第13-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Historical review of context | 第17-34页 |
| ·Survey of traditional context | 第17-22页 |
| ·Content of context | 第17-21页 |
| ·Features of context | 第21-22页 |
| ·Cognitive context in RT | 第22-30页 |
| ·Cognitive context and relevance | 第24-28页 |
| ·Cognitive context and utterance interpretation | 第28-30页 |
| ·Comparison between traditional context and cognitive context | 第30-34页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Functions of context in pragmatic inference | 第34-41页 |
| ·Context is the premise of pragmatic inference | 第34-37页 |
| ·Utterance interpretation begins with pragmatic inference | 第34-36页 |
| ·Intention and cognitive psychology is the basis of pragmatic inference | 第36-37页 |
| ·Context is the core variable of pragmatic process | 第37-39页 |
| ·Pragmatic inference is the process of information processing highly depending on context | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ My tentative studies of context | 第41-58页 |
| ·Context is dynamic | 第41-44页 |
| ·Contextual setting | 第42页 |
| ·Contextual adjustment | 第42-43页 |
| ·Self-producing of context | 第43-44页 |
| ·Composition of dynamic context | 第44-50页 |
| ·Initial context | 第45-46页 |
| ·Relevant context | 第46-48页 |
| ·Subjective context | 第48-50页 |
| ·Forms of dynamic context | 第50-52页 |
| ·Verbal signals | 第50-51页 |
| ·Non-verbal signals | 第51-52页 |
| ·Functions of dynamic context in utterance interpretation | 第52-58页 |
| ·Elimination of information of redundancy | 第54页 |
| ·Explanation of ambiguity | 第54-55页 |
| ·Constraints of semantic acceptance | 第55-56页 |
| ·Comprehension of compositional mechanism of texture | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Significance of dynamic context | 第58-63页 |
| ·Theoretical significance | 第58-59页 |
| ·Significance in FTL | 第59-63页 |
| ·Changing the concepts of teaching and learning | 第59-60页 |
| ·Creating self-creative learning environment | 第60-61页 |
| ·Promoting the students' communicative competence | 第61-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-67页 |