| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-22页 |
| ·Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第19页 |
| ·Research Scope and Methodology | 第19-20页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第20页 |
| ·Layout of the Dissertation | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第22-39页 |
| ·Ordinary Conversation and Fictional Conversation | 第22-28页 |
| ·Nature of Ordinary Conversation and Fictional Conversation | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Mock Reality of Fictional Conversation | 第25-26页 |
| ·Function of Fictional Speech | 第26-28页 |
| ·Stylistic Study of Literature | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Task of Stylistics | 第28页 |
| ·The Problem with Stylistics | 第28-30页 |
| ·Why Pragmastylistics? | 第30-33页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach and its Capacity to Characterize ‘Literariness’ | 第30-31页 |
| ·Pragmastylistics as an Interdisciplinary Approach | 第31-32页 |
| ·Research Domain | 第32-33页 |
| ·Literature as Text and as Discourse | 第33-35页 |
| ·Pragmatic Interpretation of Fictional Conversation | 第35-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Preliminary Theories and Bearings | 第39-56页 |
| ·Pragmatics | 第39-43页 |
| ·The Established View on Pragmatics | 第39-41页 |
| ·Verschueren’s View | 第41-43页 |
| ·Context | 第43-50页 |
| ·Categories of Context | 第44-47页 |
| ·Dynamic Notion of Context | 第47-48页 |
| ·Verschueren’s Notion of Context | 第48-50页 |
| ·Discourse Analysis | 第50-54页 |
| ·Discourse Type—Genre | 第52页 |
| ·Discourse Type—Register | 第52-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Four Theoretical Foundation and AT Model for Novel Understanding | 第56-93页 |
| ·Introduction | 第56页 |
| ·Adaptation Theory | 第56-61页 |
| ·Choice Making | 第57-58页 |
| ·Variability, Negotiability and Adaptability | 第58-61页 |
| ·Four Angels of Investigation | 第61-63页 |
| ·Contextual Correlates of Adaptability | 第61-62页 |
| ·Structural Objects of Adaptability | 第62页 |
| ·Dynamics of Adaptability | 第62-63页 |
| ·Salience of Adaptation | 第63页 |
| ·Four Ingredients Cooperation and Meaning Generation | 第63-65页 |
| ·A Pragmatic Perspective and an Integrated Approach for Communication | 第65-67页 |
| ·The AT Framework of Novel Understanding | 第67-91页 |
| ·Code Switching | 第70-72页 |
| ·Style | 第72-76页 |
| ·Phonological Correlates | 第76-77页 |
| ·Lexical-level Correlates | 第77-79页 |
| ·Syntactic Features Correlates | 第79-80页 |
| ·Semantic Level Correlates | 第80-81页 |
| ·Utterance and Utterance Cluster Correlates | 第81-84页 |
| ·Pragmatic Strategies Correlates | 第84-91页 |
| ·Summary | 第91-93页 |
| Chapter Five AT Application (1): Choice and Adaptation of Structure Correlates | 第93-128页 |
| ·Introduction | 第93页 |
| ·Choice and Adaptation of Code and Style | 第93-101页 |
| ·Code-switching and Adaptation | 第93-98页 |
| ·Adaptation and Style | 第98-101页 |
| ·Adaptation at Phonological Level | 第101-102页 |
| ·Adaptation at Lexical Level | 第102-107页 |
| ·Dialect and Idiolect | 第102-105页 |
| ·Formal Words, Informal Words, Colloquial Words and Others | 第105-107页 |
| ·Syntactic Adaptation | 第107-115页 |
| ·Long Sentence and Short Sentence | 第107-110页 |
| ·Simple Sentence and Complex Sentence | 第110-113页 |
| ·Formal and Informal Sentence Pattern | 第113-115页 |
| ·Semantic Adaptation | 第115-117页 |
| ·Choice and Adaptation at Utterances and Utterance Clusters Level | 第117-120页 |
| ·Choice and Adaptation of Utterance-building Principles | 第120-127页 |
| ·Introduction to Utterance Building Principles | 第120页 |
| ·Topic Control and Topic Change | 第120-123页 |
| ·Turn Taking | 第123-127页 |
| ·Summary | 第127-128页 |
| Chapter Six AT Application (2): Choice and Adaptation to Pragmatic Strategies | 第128-146页 |
| ·Introduction | 第128页 |
| ·Speech Acts | 第128-132页 |
| ·Macro-speech Acts | 第129-130页 |
| ·Indirect Speech Acts | 第130-132页 |
| ·Politeness and Adaptation | 第132-137页 |
| ·Politeness and Adaptation to the Physical World | 第132-135页 |
| ·Politeness and Adaptation to the Social World | 第135-136页 |
| ·Politeness and Adaptation to the Mental World | 第136-137页 |
| ·Irony Producing and Interpreting Process and Adaptation | 第137-144页 |
| ·Summary | 第144-146页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第146-152页 |
| ·Summary of the Dissertation | 第146-147页 |
| ·Findings and Implications of the Study | 第147-149页 |
| ·Limitations of the Current Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第149-152页 |
| Bibliography | 第152-160页 |