| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4-7页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第7-13页 |
| 1．1 INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH ACTS | 第7-8页 |
| 1．2 SAVs AND TWO FUNCTIONS OF SAVs | 第8-9页 |
| 1．3 IMPORTANCE OF SAVs | 第9-10页 |
| 1．4 PURPOSE OF THIS THESIS | 第10-11页 |
| 1．5 SELECTION OF WORDS | 第11页 |
| 1．6 RESEARCH METHOD AND LAYOUT OF THE THESIS | 第11-13页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO SPEECH ACT THEORY AND SAVs | 第13-35页 |
| 2．1 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH ACT THEORY | 第13-24页 |
| 2．1．1 Austin's Achievement on Speech Act Theory | 第13-18页 |
| 2．1．1．1 Constatives VS． Performatives | 第13-15页 |
| 2．1．1．2 Three Subacts of Speech Acts | 第15-16页 |
| 2．1．1．3 Austin's Felicity Conditions on Illocutionary Acts | 第16-17页 |
| 2．1．1．4 Austin's Classification of Illocutionary Acts | 第17-18页 |
| 2．1．2 Searle's Development on Speech Act Theory | 第18-22页 |
| 2．1．2．1 Kinds of Speech Acts | 第18-19页 |
| 2．1．2．2 Searle's Felicity Conditions on Speech Acts | 第19-20页 |
| 2．1．2．3 Searle's Alternative Classification of Illocutionary Acts | 第20-22页 |
| 2．1．3 Keith Ailan's Classification of Illocutionary Acts on Speech Act Theory | 第22-24页 |
| 2．2 CLASSIFICATION OF SAVs | 第24-34页 |
| 2．2．1 Original Classification of SAVs | 第24页 |
| 2．2．2 Austin's Classification of SAVs | 第24-25页 |
| 2．2．3 Vanderveken' s Classification of SAVs | 第25-26页 |
| 2．2．4 Keith Allan's Classification of SAVs | 第26页 |
| 2．2．5 Anna Weizbicker's Classification of SAVs | 第26-27页 |
| 2．2．6 The Classification of SAVs Adopted in This Thesis and the Principles of the Classification | 第27-34页 |
| 2．3 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPEECH ACTS AND SAVs | 第34-35页 |
| CHAPTER 3 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF SAVs WITH HIGH FREQUENCIES IN NEC | 第35-76页 |
| 3．1 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FREQUENCIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF SAVs IN NEC AS COMPARED WITH BROWNA, LOBA | 第35-40页 |
| 3．1．1 Distributions of SAVs in NEC, BROWNA and LOBA | 第35-38页 |
| 3．1．2 Distributions of SAVs with Performative Use in NEC, BROWNA and LOBA | 第38-40页 |
| 3．2 DISCUSSION OF SAVs WITH HIGH FREQUENCIES IN NEC | 第40-76页 |
| 3．2．1 Distribution of SAVs with High Frequencies in NEC, BROWNA and LOBA | 第40-46页 |
| 3．2．2 Detailed Study of SAVs with High Frequencies in NEC | 第46-76页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Require | 第47-49页 |
| 3．2．2．2 Allow | 第49-52页 |
| 3．2．2．3 Report | 第52-56页 |
| 3．2．2．4 Agree | 第56-59页 |
| 3．2．2．5 Describe | 第59-60页 |
| 3．2．2．6 Accept | 第60-62页 |
| 3．2．2．7 Approve | 第62-63页 |
| 3．2．2．8 Suggest | 第63-65页 |
| 3．2．2．9 Discuss | 第65-67页 |
| 3．2．2．10 State | 第67-68页 |
| 3．2．2．11 Inform | 第68-70页 |
| 3．2．2．12 Confirm | 第70-72页 |
| 3．2．2．13 Say, Tell and Ask | 第72-76页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION | 第76-79页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第79-80页 |
| REFERENCES | 第80-81页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅰ SNOBOL4 PROGRAM SORTING OUT SENTENCES | 第81-82页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅱ FORPRO PROGRAM BREAKING CORPUS SENTENCE | 第82-85页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅲ A BRIEF STUDY OF SAVs | 第85-105页 |
