| Acknowledgement | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| 1.Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Significance and purpose of the study | 第11页 |
| ·Scope of the study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第12-13页 |
| 2.Literature Review and theoretical framework | 第13-25页 |
| ·Previous studies | 第13-15页 |
| ·Theoretical framework of the study | 第15-25页 |
| ·Speech act theory | 第16-18页 |
| ·Direct and Indirect speech act theory | 第18-22页 |
| ·Conversation Implicature and The cooperative principle | 第19-21页 |
| ·Characteristics of conversational implicature | 第21-22页 |
| ·Theories of conversation structure analysis | 第22-24页 |
| ·Communicative competence and linguistic competence | 第24-25页 |
| 3.Research Methodology | 第25-28页 |
| ·Research design | 第26-27页 |
| ·Data collection | 第27-28页 |
| ·Data description | 第28页 |
| 4.Conversation analysis of job interviews | 第28-40页 |
| ·Analysis of turn-taking patterns in job interviews | 第29-35页 |
| ·Turn and turn-taking | 第29-32页 |
| ·Turns | 第29-31页 |
| ·"Turn-taking" | 第31-32页 |
| ·Operation of turn-taking patterns in job interviews | 第32-35页 |
| ·Turn-taking in a two-person conversation | 第32-34页 |
| ·Turn-taking in multi-person interviews | 第34-35页 |
| ·Analysis of interaction in job interviews | 第35-38页 |
| ·Analysis of interruption in the conversation | 第35-36页 |
| ·Analysis of repair strategy in the conversation | 第36-38页 |
| ·Analysis of question and response structure | 第38-40页 |
| ·Forms of question-response structure | 第38-39页 |
| ·Back channel item | 第39-40页 |
| 5.Discussion on the response strategies for interview questions | 第40-45页 |
| ·Function of different types of questions | 第40-41页 |
| ·Structural components in job interview | 第40页 |
| ·Categorization of interviewer's questions and their distribution | 第40-41页 |
| ·Purposes of the types of questions | 第41页 |
| ·response strategies of different types of questions(answers) | 第41-45页 |
| ·Response strategies for information checking questions | 第41-42页 |
| ·Response strategies for opinion checking questions | 第42-44页 |
| ·Direct and Indirect Speech act in opinion checking questions | 第42-44页 |
| ·Response strategies of the questions | 第44页 |
| ·Response strategies for clarification seeking questions | 第44-45页 |
| 6.Conclusion | 第45-47页 |
| Bibliography | 第47-48页 |