| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·A brief review of contemporary reading theories | 第10-12页 |
| ·A brief introduction to relevance theory | 第12-14页 |
| ·The organization of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Reading and Cognition | 第16-24页 |
| ·The cognitive nature of reading | 第16-17页 |
| ·The reading process | 第17-19页 |
| ·Prior knowledge in reading | 第19-21页 |
| ·Memory and reading | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Reading and Communication | 第24-40页 |
| ·Reading as a kind of communication process | 第24-26页 |
| ·Decoding and inference in reading | 第26-31页 |
| ·The context in reading comprehension | 第31-34页 |
| ·Cognitive environment and mutual manifestness in reading | 第34-37页 |
| ·Reading as an ostensive-inferential communication process | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Relevance and Reading | 第40-56页 |
| ·Contextual effects in reading | 第40-42页 |
| ·Relevance in terms of effect and effort | 第42-46页 |
| ·How relevance theory explains ostensive-inferential reading communication | 第46-49页 |
| ·How relevance theory explains the comprehension procedure in reading: metaphor as an example | 第49-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-61页 |
