| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Motivation of the thesis | 第10-12页 |
| ·Maxims controlling interpersonal communication strategies | 第12-13页 |
| ·Culture and context- variables that affect interpersonal communication strategies | 第13-14页 |
| ·Speech acts analyzed in the thesis | 第14页 |
| ·Arrangement of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two From Grice to Kim: the Maxim Governed Interpersonal Communication | 第16-29页 |
| ·Grice's co-operative principle | 第16-18页 |
| ·Politeness principles(PP) and politeness model | 第18-24页 |
| ·Lakoff's model of politeness | 第18-19页 |
| ·Leech's politeness principle | 第19-21页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's politeness model | 第21-24页 |
| ·Kim's conversational constraints | 第24-29页 |
| ·Brief introduction to Kim's constraints | 第24-25页 |
| ·Cross-cultural studies on Kim's conversational constraints | 第25-29页 |
| Chapter Three Chinese Cross-cultural Studies on Communication Strategies | 第29-38页 |
| ·Chinese politeness principles | 第29-34页 |
| ·Chinese "face' expression and cultural assumptions | 第34-38页 |
| ·Chinese "face" | 第34-35页 |
| ·Differences between Chinese "face" and Brown & Levinson's "face" | 第35-36页 |
| ·Cultural differences | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four Context Variables Influencing Interpersonal Communication Strategies | 第38-48页 |
| ·The significance of the notion "context variable" | 第38页 |
| ·About context | 第38-41页 |
| ·The contextual constraints on the selection of communication strategies | 第41-48页 |
| ·Field | 第42-44页 |
| ·Tenor | 第44-48页 |
| ·The context variables in Leech's politeness principles | 第44-45页 |
| ·Variables in Brown and Levinson's model | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter Fiver Coordination between Context Variables and Cultural Factors in Speech Acts | 第48-84页 |
| ·Cross-cultural differences in context variables | 第48-57页 |
| ·Speech acts | 第57-84页 |
| ·Apology | 第57-70页 |
| ·Apology strategies | 第57-63页 |
| ·The difference in preference for apology strategies between English and Chinese | 第63-65页 |
| ·Context variables vs. apology strategies | 第65-66页 |
| ·Reasons for the cross-cultural differences in apology strategies | 第66-70页 |
| ·Response to compliment | 第70-84页 |
| ·Yu Ming-chung's classification | 第70-75页 |
| ·Cultural backgrounds and context variables | 第75-84页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第84-88页 |
| Bibliography | 第88-91页 |
