| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract(Chinese) | 第7-8页 |
| List of Tables | 第8-9页 |
| List of Figures | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-21页 |
| ·Language Reporting and Speech Reporting | 第12-14页 |
| ·Language reporting | 第12-13页 |
| ·Toward a definition of speech reporting | 第13-14页 |
| ·A Brief Literature Review | 第14-18页 |
| ·Kinds of reported speech | 第14-15页 |
| ·Linguistic approaches to reported speech | 第15-17页 |
| ·Pragmatic approaches to speech reporting | 第17页 |
| ·Speech reporting in discourse | 第17-18页 |
| ·General Aims of the Current Research | 第18-19页 |
| ·Data Used for Analysis | 第19页 |
| ·Summary | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Discourse Roles in Speech Reporting | 第21-33页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·Role Relations in Discourse | 第21-24页 |
| ·Producer roles & receiver roles | 第22-23页 |
| ·Discourse roles in speech reporting | 第23-24页 |
| ·Identifying the Role of Author | 第24-29页 |
| ·Author in the message-introducer | 第25-27页 |
| ·Individual as an author | 第25-26页 |
| ·Institution as an author | 第26页 |
| ·Non-human as an author | 第26页 |
| ·Community | 第26-27页 |
| ·Absence of the author role in the message-introducer | 第27-28页 |
| ·Imaginary author | 第28-29页 |
| ·A potential author | 第28页 |
| ·An author unable to talk | 第28-29页 |
| ·Role-play | 第29页 |
| ·Marked Roles in Speech Reporting | 第29-32页 |
| ·Mouthpiece | 第30-31页 |
| ·Spokesperson | 第31页 |
| ·Reporter | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three Conversational Structures of Speech Reporting | 第33-42页 |
| ·Introduction | 第33页 |
| ·Types of Initiation | 第33-37页 |
| ·Reporting invited by the hearer | 第34-35页 |
| ·Reporting invited by the Hearer-author | 第35-36页 |
| ·Self-initiation | 第36-37页 |
| ·Presenting Message and Message-introducer in Conversation | 第37-40页 |
| ·Message and message-introducer in the same turn | 第37-38页 |
| ·Message and Message-introducer in the separate turns | 第38-40页 |
| ·Hearer's denying the truth of the message | 第38-39页 |
| ·Hearer's questioning the identity of the author | 第39页 |
| ·Hearer's resisting the speech reporting | 第39-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Speaker's Strategies in Self-initiated Speech Reporting | 第42-50页 |
| ·Introduction | 第42页 |
| ·Communicative Functions of Speech Reporting | 第42-44页 |
| ·Speech reporting for evidence | 第43页 |
| ·Speech reporting for persuasion | 第43页 |
| ·Speech reporting for reducing responsibility | 第43-44页 |
| ·Speaker's Strategies of Manipulating Author and Hearer Relationship | 第44-49页 |
| ·Manipulating the author's power over the hearer | 第45-47页 |
| ·The overlapping roles of author and hearer | 第47-48页 |
| ·Ventriloquizing —imitating the way the author speaks | 第48-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| ·Summary of Major Findings | 第50-51页 |
| ·Limitations of This Study | 第51页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Studies | 第51-53页 |
| Appendix | 第53-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-56页 |
