| Chapter One A Brief Introduction to the Present Study | 第1-12页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation and Review of Previous Studies | 第12-35页 |
| ·Inference Nature of Interpretation | 第12-16页 |
| ·Impossibility of Transcoding in Interpretation | 第12页 |
| ·Language Ambiguity and Meaning | 第12-14页 |
| ·Definition of Inference | 第14-16页 |
| ·Inferential Models | 第16-20页 |
| ·Grice’s Conversational Theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第17-18页 |
| ·A Brief Aanalysis of Difference between CP and RT Inferential Models | 第18-20页 |
| ·Categories of Inference | 第20-35页 |
| ·Liu Limin’s Four Inferences | 第20-22页 |
| ·Bridging and Elaborative Inference | 第22-23页 |
| ·Chernov’s Inferences | 第23-31页 |
| ·Communicative Situation and Source of Inference | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter Three Introduction to the First Experiment | 第35-42页 |
| ·Theory Summarization | 第35-36页 |
| ·Aims of the Present Experiment | 第36页 |
| ·Experiment Design | 第36-42页 |
| ·Subjects | 第36-37页 |
| ·Experimental Materials | 第37-40页 |
| ·Experimental Procedures | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Experiment Results and Analysis | 第42-55页 |
| ·Result of the First Test and Analysis | 第42-53页 |
| ·Levels of Analysis | 第42-44页 |
| ·Descriptive Analysis | 第44-50页 |
| ·Qualitative Analysis | 第50-53页 |
| ·Conclusion of the First Experiment | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter Five The Second Empirical Experiment | 第55-64页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Experiment | 第55页 |
| ·Experiment Design | 第55-58页 |
| ·Subjects | 第55-56页 |
| ·Material Selection | 第56-57页 |
| ·Procedure of the second experiment | 第57页 |
| ·Levels of Analysis | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Results of the Second Experiment | 第58-63页 |
| ·Descriptive Analysis | 第58-60页 |
| ·Qualitative Analysis | 第60-63页 |
| ·Conclusion of the Second Empirical Experiment | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第64-67页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Passage I | 第67-68页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Passage II | 第68-69页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Information Units for Passage One | 第69-71页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Information Units for Passage Two | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ Information Sheet for the Controlled Group | 第72-73页 |
| Appendix Ⅵ Reference Table of Flesch Reading Ease Formula | 第73-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-75页 |
