Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Inferencing as the Research Topic 1.1.1 Inferencing as the major part of cognitive pragmatics 1.1.2 The categories of inferencing 1.1.3 Preliminary definition of inferencing 1.2 Objectives of the Research 1.3 Significance of the Research 1.4 Methodology and Data 1.5 Organization of the Research Chapter 2 Previous Studies on Inferencing 2.1 Classical Pragmatic Inference 2.1.1 Grice's theory of implicature 2.1.2 Searle's indirect speech acts 2.1.3 Horn's two principles of conversational implicature 2.22.1.4RelevanceLeVinson's threeTheory iprinciples of conversational implicature 2.2.1 Ostensive-inferential communication 2.2.2 Relevance and optimal relevance 2.. A dynamic view of context 2.2.4 Informative intention and communicative intention 2.2.5 Explicature and implicature 2.2.6 Non-demonstrative inference . Cognitive Pragmatics: an Overview ..1 Macro-study and micro-study ..2 A combination of macro-study and micro-study .. Social cognitive pragmatics 2.4 Some Recent Cognitive Approaches to Inferencing 2.4.1 Metaphor as inferencing 2.4.2 Metonymy as inferencing 2.4.3 Blending as inferencing 2.5 Chinese Scholars' Models of Inference 2.5.1 Xu Shenghuan's mental model 2.5.2 The models proposed by ian Guanlian and Xiong Xueliang Chapter 3 A Cognitive Study in Pragmatic lnferencing 3.1 Some Preparatory Observations 3.2 New Cognitive Pragmatics 3.2.1 In quest of a comprehensive view of cognitive pragmatics 3.2.2 Assutin on properties of new cognitive pragmatics 3.. Revision of inference and inferencing 3.2.4 Types of inferencing 3.3 Theoretical Foundation of Dynamic Integration Model of Inferencing (DIMI) 3.3.1 Rationality 3.3.2 Conceptual integration 3.3.3 Dynamic context 3.4 Dynamic Integration Model of Inferencing (DIMI) 3.5 Key Components of DIMI and Its Merits 3.5.1 Rationality of interlocutors' mental spaces 3.5.2 Dynamic integration 3.5.3 What's communicated