| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-10页 |
| Lists of Tables | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第14-27页 |
| ·Relevant Key Concepts in the Study of Indirect Anaphora (IA) | 第14-18页 |
| ·Definition of IA | 第14-15页 |
| ·Classifications of IA | 第15-17页 |
| ·Definiteness of Chinese Noun Phrase | 第17-18页 |
| ·Theoretical Account for IA | 第18-27页 |
| ·Given and New Contract | 第18-19页 |
| ·Hawkins’Four Appropriate Condition | 第19-20页 |
| ·Coherence-based Account | 第20-21页 |
| ·Topic/Focus Model | 第21-23页 |
| ·Scenario Model | 第23-24页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretical Model | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Two Relevance Theory and Its Interpretation to IA | 第27-36页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第27-31页 |
| ·Principles of Relevance | 第28-29页 |
| ·Communication and Relevance | 第29-30页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance | 第30-31页 |
| ·A Proposed Resolution Procedure for IA in Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第31-36页 |
| ·Backward Reference | 第32-33页 |
| ·Activation of Concepts | 第33-34页 |
| ·Retrieval and Construction of Contextual Assumption | 第34页 |
| ·Accessibility of Candidate Referents | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three Data Collection and Discussion | 第36-49页 |
| ·Source of Materials and Criteria of Data Collection | 第36-38页 |
| ·Source of Material | 第36-37页 |
| ·Criteria of Data Collection | 第37-38页 |
| ·Research Method | 第38页 |
| ·Basic Statistics | 第38-46页 |
| ·Stereotypic or Non-stereotypic Relations | 第38-41页 |
| ·Semantic Relation between NP1 and NP2 | 第41-42页 |
| ·NP1’s Forms | 第42-44页 |
| ·NP2’s Forms | 第44-45页 |
| ·Textual Distances between NP1 and NP2 | 第45-46页 |
| ·Characteristics of IA in Chinese Narrative Discourses | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Four Relevance-theoretical Interpretation of IA in Chinese Narrative Discourses | 第49-63页 |
| ·Principle of Local Interpretation | 第49-50页 |
| ·Stereotypic and Non-stereotypic Relations revisited | 第50-52页 |
| ·Stereotypic-driven Resolution | 第52-56页 |
| ·One-antecedent Anaphor Resolution | 第52-54页 |
| ·Competing-antecedent Anaphor Resolution | 第54-56页 |
| ·Non-stereotypic-driven Resolution | 第56-63页 |
| ·Non-stereotypic Information | 第56-58页 |
| ·Comparison between Non-stereotypic and Stereotypic-driven Procedure | 第58-60页 |
| ·Non-stereotypic-driven Procedure | 第60-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-66页 |
| Works Cited | 第66-70页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第70-71页 |
| Appendix A | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix B | 第72-73页 |
| Informative Abstract in Chinese | 第73-77页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第77页 |
