斯珀伯和威尔逊在合著的《关联性：交际与认知》(1986/1995)一书中提出的关联理论从认知心理的角度出发，认为交际理论又是一种认知理论，提出了明示－推理的交际模式，为认知语用学奠定了理论基础。本书在这一交际模式的基础上，详细探讨了认知语用学的背景与现状，研究方法，会话含义理论，各种交际模式的比较，认知语境，语用推理，明说与暗含，程序意义和概念意义，词汇语用以及关联理论对部分语言现象的解释力等问题，试图勾画出该学科的理论框架，反映出该领域的最新研究成果。同时本书用简明易懂的英语语言编写，以方便外语院系的研究生或语言学爱好者用作教材使用。

Chapter 1 Cognitive Pragmatics. An Overview / 1

1. Introduction / 1

2. An Overview of Pragmatics / 2

3. From Philosophy of Language to Cognitive Science / 5

4. The Central Issues of Cognitive Pragmatics / 12

5. The Approaches to Cognitive Pragmatics / 20

6. The Relationship Between Cognitive Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics / 27

7. The Developing Trends of Cognitive Pragmatics / 31

Chapter 2 Conversational Implicatures / 36

1. Introduction / 36

2. Meaning and Intention / 37

3. Classic-Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicatures / 39

4. Neo-Gricean Period / 46

5. Development of Relevance Theory on Conversational Implicatures / 55

6. Summary / 60

Chapter 3 Linguistic Communication and Its Models / 63

1. Introduction / 63

2. The Code Model of Linguistic Communication / 64

3. The Inferential Model of Linguistic Communication / 70

4. The Ostensive-inferential Model of Linguistic Communication / 73

5. Summary / 79

Chapter 4 Cognitive Context / 81

1. Introduction / 81

2. Traditional Context / 82

3. Cognitive Context / 88

4. A Comparison Between Traditional Context and Cognitive Context / 91

5. Cognitive Context in Communication / 99

6. Summary / 108

Chapter 5 Cognitive Principle and Conununicative Principle / 110

1. Introduction / 110

2. Relevance and Communication / 111

3. The Principle of Relevance / 114

4. Two Principles of Relevance / 120

5. Summary / 128

Chapter 6 Pragmatic Inference / 131

1. Introduction / 131

2. Logical Inference / 132

3. Features of Pragmatic Inference / 137

4. The Dynamic Model of Pragmatic Inference / 138

5. Bridging and Cognitive Inference / 147

6. Summary / 163

Chapter 7 Explicature and Implicature / 166

1. Introduction / 166

2. Traditional Distinction of"What is said" and "What is implied" / 167

3. Relevance-theoretic Pragmatics / 170

4. Pragmatic Tasks in Explicature Derivation / 177

5. Summary / 186

Chapter 8 Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning / 189

1. Introduction / 189

2. The Theoretical Framework / 190

3. Definitions of Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning / 191

4. Conceptual-procedural Meaning and Relevance-theoretic Semantics / 194

5. Criteria for Identification / 194

6. Procedural Expressions / 197

7. Summary / 203

Chapter 9 A Cog-pragmatic Study of Reference Assignment and Discourse Markers / 205

1. Introduction / 205

2. Reference Assignment / 206

3. Discourse Markers / 219

4. Summary / 238

Chapter 10 Lexical Pragmatics / 241

1. Introduction / 241

2. Pragmatic Enrichment / 242

3. Pragmatic Enrichment on Polysemy with Relevance Theory / 252

4. Summary / 257

Index / 260