| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13页 |
| ·The rationale of the present study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Problems with the existing studies | 第14页 |
| ·Objectives of the present study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第15页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-32页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17页 |
| ·Definitions and classifications of pragmatic failur | 第17-18页 |
| ·Thomas's definition and classification | 第17页 |
| ·He Ziran's definition and classification | 第17-18页 |
| ·Qian Guanlian's definition and classification | 第18页 |
| ·Summary of the previous definitions and classifications of pragmatic failure | 第18页 |
| ·Researches On pragmatic failure and the achievements | 第18-29页 |
| ·Cross-culture communication and pragmatic failure | 第19-24页 |
| ·Pragmatic transfer and pragmatic failure | 第24-25页 |
| ·Foreign language teaching and pragmatic failure | 第25-27页 |
| ·Cognition and pragmatic failure | 第27-29页 |
| ·Intra-lingual pragmatic failure and the relavant researches | 第29-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第32-41页 |
| ·Introduction | 第32-33页 |
| ·The appropriateness principle | 第33-35页 |
| ·Leech's Tact Maxim | 第33页 |
| ·Li Ruihua's Appropriateness Principle | 第33-34页 |
| ·Wang Xi jie's Appropriateness Principle | 第34-35页 |
| ·Suo Zhenyu's Tact Principle | 第35页 |
| ·Brief introduction of related concepts | 第35-38页 |
| ·Language and context | 第36-37页 |
| ·Language standardization,utterance standardization,and language appropriateness | 第37-38页 |
| ·Context and appropriateness | 第38页 |
| ·The appropriateness principle adopted in this study | 第38-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Four The Amended Appropriateness Principle And Intra-Lingual PragmaticFailure | 第41-60页 |
| ·Introduction | 第41页 |
| ·Intra-lingual pragmatic failure caused by the inappropriateness related to the languageknowledge | 第41-45页 |
| ·The inappropriateness of style | 第41-43页 |
| ·The inappropriateness of intonation | 第43-44页 |
| ·The inappropriateness of the propositional meaning of utterances | 第44-45页 |
| ·Intra-lingual pragmatic failure caused by the inappropriateness related to thecommunicator | 第45-52页 |
| ·The inappropriateness related to the social features of the communicator | 第45-49页 |
| ·The inappropriateness related to the psychological features of the communicator | 第49-52页 |
| ·Intra-lingual pragmatic failure caused by the inappropriateness related to thecommunicative situation | 第52-54页 |
| ·The inappropriateness related to time | 第52页 |
| ·The inappropriateness related to place | 第52-53页 |
| ·The inappropriateness related to topic | 第53-54页 |
| ·Intra-lingual pragmatic failure caused by the inappropriateness related to the social andcultural norms | 第54-57页 |
| ·Region-ignoring inappropriateness | 第54-55页 |
| ·Nationality-ignoring iInappropriateness | 第55页 |
| ·The inappropriate use of taboo and euphemism | 第55-57页 |
| ·Suggestions for the avoidance and rescue of pragmatic failure | 第57-59页 |
| ·Summary | 第59-60页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第60-62页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第61页 |
| ·Suggestion for further study | 第61-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-67页 |
| 攻研期间发表的学术论文 | 第67-69页 |
| 个人简况及联系方式 | 第69-72页 |
