Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Inferenang 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 0bjectives of the Research 1.3 Signifcance of the Research 1.4 Methodology and Data 1.5 Organization of the Research Chapter 2 Previous Studies onlnferencing 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 2.1.4 Levinson's three principles of conversational implicature 2.2 Relevance Theory 2.2.1 Ostensive-inferential communication 2.2.2 Relevance and optimal relevance 2.2.3 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 ……