| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-6页 |
| Curriculum Vitae | 第6-10页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第10-16页 |
| Glossary of Symbols Used in the Dissertation | 第16-21页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第21-35页 |
| 1．1 The Goals of the Research | 第21-23页 |
| 1．2 The Rationale of the Research | 第23-24页 |
| 1．3 Main Issues and the Problem | 第24-30页 |
| 1．4 Methodology and Data Collection | 第30-31页 |
| 1．5 Overview of the Dissertation | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter Two Review of Past Studies | 第35-49页 |
| 2．1 Earlier Research on Bridging Reference | 第35-40页 |
| 2．2 Research on Bridging Reference in the 1980s | 第40-43页 |
| 2．3 More Recent Research on Bridging Reference | 第43-46页 |
| 2．4 Current Trends in Research on Bridging Reference | 第46-48页 |
| 2．5 Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Three A Description of the Theoretical Framework | 第49-69页 |
| 3．1 The Delimitation of Bridging Reference | 第49-55页 |
| 3．1．1 The Mechanics of Bridging Reference | 第49-50页 |
| 3．1．2 The Working Definition of ”Bridging Reference” | 第50-55页 |
| 3．1．2．1 A Review of Previous Definitions | 第51-54页 |
| 3．1．2．2 An Alternative Definition | 第54-55页 |
| 3．2 Principle of Relevance and Context | 第55-61页 |
| 3．2．1 Two Principles of Relevance Theory and Optimal relevance | 第56-58页 |
| 3．2．2 Context | 第58-61页 |
| 3．3 Relevance Theory and Bridging Reference | 第61-64页 |
| 3．4 The Study of Bridging Reference at Three Levels | 第64-68页 |
| 3．4．1 The Syntactic Level | 第65-66页 |
| 3．4．2 The Semantic Level | 第66页 |
| 3．4．3 The Pragmatic Level | 第66-68页 |
| 3．5 Summary | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Four The Syntactic Analysis of Bridging Reference | 第69-105页 |
| 4．1 The Linguistic Elements of Discourse | 第69-83页 |
| 4．1．1 Parts of Sentence and Their Grammatical Functions | 第70-72页 |
| 4．1．2 Kinds of Word-forms in Chinese Discourse | 第72-75页 |
| 4．1．3 Major Carriers of Bridging Reference in Chinese Discourse | 第75-80页 |
| 4．1．3．1 Clause | 第75-77页 |
| 4．1．3．2 Sentence | 第77-80页 |
| 4．1．4 Logical Operators | 第80-83页 |
| 4．2 Information Structure and Syntactic Form | 第83-89页 |
| 4．2．1 Given and New Information | 第84-86页 |
| 4．2．2 Given/New and Syntactic Form | 第86-89页 |
| 4．3 Syntactic Constraints on Bridging Reference in Chinese Discourse | 第89-95页 |
| 4．3．1 Word Order and Constituent Order in Chinese Discourse | 第89-92页 |
| 4．3．2 Constraints of Word Order and Constituent Order on Bridging Reference | 第92-95页 |
| 4．4 Well-formedness and Syntactic Validity of Bridging Reference | 第95-104页 |
| 4．4．1 Well-formedness of Bridging Reference | 第95-98页 |
| 4．4．2 Syntactic Validity of Bridging Reference | 第98-99页 |
| 4．4．3 Syntactic Position of the Bridging Reference Relationship | 第99-104页 |
| 4．5 Summary | 第104-105页 |
| Chapter Five The Semantic Analysis of Bridging Reference | 第105-132页 |
| 5．1 Theories of Meaning Relating to Bridging Reference | 第105-108页 |
| 5．2 Semantic Analysis of Bridging Reference | 第108-118页 |
| 5．2．1 Situational and Discourse Bridging Reference | 第108-110页 |
| 5．2．2 Meaning Relations and Truth-conditions in Discourse | 第110-116页 |
| 5．2．2．1 Entailment | 第111-114页 |
| 5．2．2．2 Semantic presupposition | 第114-116页 |
| 5．2．3 The Semantics of the Verb, the Verb Phrase and the Adverbial in Bridging Reference Relationships | 第116-118页 |
| 5．3 Semantic Constraints on Bridging Reference | 第118-125页 |
| 5．3．1 The Constraint of Proposition on Bridging Reference | 第118-122页 |
| 5．3．2 The Constraint of Animate and Inanimate Entity on Bridging Reference | 第122-123页 |
| 5．3．3 The Constraint of Properties on Bridging Reference | 第123-125页 |
| 5．4 The Semantic Well-formedness and Acceptability of Bridging Reference | 第125-131页 |
| 5．4．1 The Semantic Well-formedness of Bridging Reference | 第126-129页 |
| 5．4．2 Semantic Acceptability of Bridging Reference | 第129-131页 |
| 5．5 Summary | 第131-132页 |
| Chapter Six The Pragmatic Analysis of Bridging Reference | 第132-168页 |
| 6．1 Pragmatic Approaches to Bridging Reference | 第132-140页 |
| 6．1．1 Troth-based Approaches | 第133-135页 |
| 6．1．2 Coherence-based Approaches | 第135-138页 |
| 6．1．3 Relevance-based Approaches | 第138-140页 |
| 6．2 Pragmatic Constraints on Bridging Reference | 第140-147页 |
| 6．2．1 The Constraint of Stereotypicality | 第141-143页 |
| 6．2．2 The Pragmatic Constraint of Non-transitivity | 第143-144页 |
| 6．2．3 Pragmatic Constraint of Discourse Connectives on Bridging Reference | 第144-147页 |
| 6．3 Pragmatic Acceptability and Accessibility of Bridging Reference | 第147-155页 |
| 6．3．1 Bridging Reference and Bridging Inference | 第148-152页 |
| 6．3．2 Contextual Effects and Implicature in Interpreting Bridging Reference | 第152-155页 |
| 6．4 Towards a Unified Account of Bridging Reference | 第155-167页 |
| 6．4．1 Pragmatics vs． Syntax and Semantics in Bridging Reference | 第155-159页 |
| 6．4．1．1 Syntactic vs． Pragmatic Interpretation of Bridging Reference | 第156-157页 |
| 6．4．1．2 Semantic vs． Pragmatic Interpretation of Bridging Reference | 第157-159页 |
| 6．4．2 A Relevance-theoretic Account of Bridging Reference | 第159-167页 |
| 6．4．2．1 Sidner's account: The Expected Focus Algorithm | 第159-161页 |
| 6．4．2．2 Topic/focus Accounts and the Determination of Bridging Reference | 第161-164页 |
| 6．4．2．3 Pragmatic Presupposition and Appropriateness of Bridging Reference | 第164-167页 |
| 6．5 Summary | 第167-168页 |
| Chapter Seven Testing the Hypotheses: Two Questionnaire Studies | 第168-183页 |
| 7．1 Questionnaire 1 | 第169-174页 |
| 7．1．1 Participants | 第169-170页 |
| 7．1．2 Materials | 第170-171页 |
| 7．1．3 Procedures | 第171-172页 |
| 7．1．4 Data Preparation and Data Analysis | 第172页 |
| 7．1．5 Results and Discussion | 第172-174页 |
| 7．2 Questionnaire 2 | 第174-182页 |
| 7．2．1 Participants | 第175页 |
| 7．2．2 Materials | 第175-177页 |
| 7．2．3 Procedures | 第177-178页 |
| 7．2．4 Data Preparation and Data analysis | 第178页 |
| 7．2．5 Results and Discussion | 第178-182页 |
| 7．3 Summary | 第182-183页 |
| Chapter Eight Conclusion and Implications | 第183-192页 |
| 8．1 Syntactic Well-formedness and Validity | 第184-185页 |
| 8．2 Semantic Well-formedness and Acceptability | 第185-186页 |
| 8．3 Pragmatic Appropriateness and Accessibility | 第186-188页 |
| 8．4 Implications of the Present Research | 第188-189页 |
| 8．5 Limitations and Issues Worth Further Consideration and Exploration | 第189-192页 |
| Bibliography | 第192-201页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第201-209页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第209-219页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第219-226页 |
