| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Transcription Conventions | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·Basic Concepts about Conversation Repair | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Objective of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Methodology and Data | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of Relevant Literature | 第17-24页 |
| ·Researches on Conversation Repair: Origin and Development | 第17-20页 |
| ·Schegloff's Contributions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Further Development by Other Linguists | 第18页 |
| ·Weak Points of Previous Studies | 第18-20页 |
| ·Face-saving Theory by Brown & Levinson | 第20-22页 |
| ·A General Introduction | 第20-21页 |
| ·Face, Positive Face and Negative Face | 第21页 |
| ·Face-threatening Acts and Three Politeness Strategies | 第21-22页 |
| ·Brown & Levinson's Model and Conversation Repair | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Politeness Strategies in the Placement of Initiation and Repair | 第24-40页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in Giving up Other-initiation and Other-repair | 第24-33页 |
| ·Preference Theory and Its Weak Points | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Proposing of the Preference Theory | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Weak Points of the Explanation by Schegloff | 第26-27页 |
| ·Self-initiation and Self-repair for Face | 第27-33页 |
| ·Speaking as an Action and as a Performance | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Positive Face in Self-initiation and Self-repair | 第28-31页 |
| ·The Negative Face in Self-initiation and Self-repair | 第31-33页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in the Positions of Other-initiation and Other-repair | 第33-40页 |
| ·Other-initiation and Other-repair | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Possible Positions of Other-initiation and Other-repair | 第34-35页 |
| ·Other-initiation and Other-repair Next to the Trouble Source | 第35-37页 |
| ·Other-initiation after the Next Turn | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Four Politeness Strategies in the Techniques of Initiation and Repair | 第40-56页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in the Techniques of Initiation | 第40-51页 |
| ·Direct Other-initiation Techniques | 第40-45页 |
| ·Non-lexical Speech Perturbations | 第40-42页 |
| ·Question Words, Partial Repeat and Candidate Understanding | 第42-45页 |
| ·A Tendency in the Use of Direct Other-initiation Techniques | 第45-46页 |
| ·Explanations on the Tendency from a Politeness Perspective | 第46-48页 |
| ·Indirect Other-initiation Techniques | 第48-51页 |
| ·On-record Initiation with Redressive Action | 第48-50页 |
| ·Off-record Initiation | 第50-51页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in the Techniques of Repair | 第51-56页 |
| ·The Techniques of Repair | 第51-52页 |
| ·On-record Other-repair with Redressive Action | 第52-54页 |
| ·Off-record Other-repair | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Five Appropriateness and Face-threatening Evaluation | 第56-62页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies and Appropriateness | 第56-59页 |
| ·Polite Linguistic Forms and Polite Effect in Real Conversation | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Importance of Appropriate Politeness Strategies | 第57-58页 |
| ·Face-threatening Evaluation: A Way to Appropriateness | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Social Variables in Face-threatening Evaluation | 第59-62页 |
| ·Social Distance | 第59-60页 |
| ·Relative Power | 第60页 |
| ·The Formality of Context | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter Six A Case Study | 第62-66页 |
| ·An Explanation of Material and Method | 第62页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in the Placement of Initiation and Repair | 第62-63页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in the Techniques of Initiation and Repair | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Role of Social Variables in Conversation Repair | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第66-67页 |
| ·The Limitations of the Study | 第67页 |
| ·Implications for English Teaching and Cross-cultural Communication | 第67-69页 |
| Appendix | 第69-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-73页 |
