| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·Origin of this thesis | 第10页 |
| ·The significance of studying Chinese learners' production of requests | 第10-12页 |
| ·A glimpse of research methodology | 第12页 |
| ·Organization of this thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-29页 |
| ·Speech act theory | 第14-15页 |
| ·Politeness theory and requests | 第15-18页 |
| ·Politeness as face work | 第15-17页 |
| ·Situational factors involved in performing FTAs | 第17-18页 |
| ·Studies of requests in cross-cultural pragmatics | 第18-23页 |
| ·Components of a request sequence | 第18-21页 |
| ·Internal modification | 第21-23页 |
| ·Studies of requests in interlanguage pragmatics | 第23-26页 |
| ·Studies of requests in China | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第29-37页 |
| ·Objectives and research questions | 第29-31页 |
| ·Subjects | 第31页 |
| ·Instrument | 第31-33页 |
| ·Data collection | 第33页 |
| ·Data coding and analysis | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第37-59页 |
| ·Components of request sequence | 第37-42页 |
| ·Request strategies with different degree of directness | 第42-49页 |
| ·Head acts with different person perspectives | 第49-54页 |
| ·Internal modifiers in head acts | 第54-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| ·Summary of main findings | 第59-60页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for the future research | 第61-63页 |
| References | 第63-67页 |
| Appendices | 第67-86页 |
| Appendix 1 看图说话测试 | 第67-77页 |
| Appendix 2 Data coding scheme and samples of data | 第77-86页 |
