| Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| Chapter 1. A survey on what is said | 第17-35页 |
| ·Different views about what is said | 第17-27页 |
| ·Grice’s original distinction about what is said | 第18-20页 |
| ·Sperbe and Wilson ---Saying what is not said | 第20-21页 |
| ·Bach’s impliciture | 第21-24页 |
| ·Recanati’s view about what is said | 第24-27页 |
| ·Discussion of different views | 第27-35页 |
| ·Standard recent views on the semantics | 第27-29页 |
| ·Criteria and intuitions | 第29-32页 |
| ·How Many Pragmatic Systems? | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter 2. What is said : semantic or pragmatic | 第35-52页 |
| ·Three levels of meaning | 第35-37页 |
| ·Minimalism | 第37-39页 |
| ·Maximalism | 第39-41页 |
| ·The syncretic view | 第41-44页 |
| ·The Four-Level Picture | 第41-43页 |
| ·Trouble With the Syncretic View | 第43-44页 |
| ·The availability-based approach to what is said | 第44-48页 |
| ·Availability vs. Minimalism | 第48-50页 |
| ·What is said as a pragmatic notion | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 3 Explanation of what is said | 第52-72页 |
| ·Explanation from theoretical perspective | 第52-60页 |
| ·Semantics and pragmatics: the standard picture | 第52-56页 |
| ·Semantic underdeterminacy | 第56-60页 |
| ·Explanation from experimental perspective | 第60-72页 |
| ·Experiments and results | 第61-66页 |
| ·General discussion | 第66-71页 |
| ·Concluding | 第71-72页 |
| Conclusion | 第72-74页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第74-79页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第79-81页 |
| Abstract in English | 第81-87页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第87-88页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第88页 |
