| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Introduction | 第10-11页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第11-19页 |
| ·Brown and Gilman's Theory on the Pronoun of Address | 第11-13页 |
| ·Brown and Ford's Study on American English Address Patterns | 第13-15页 |
| ·Ervin-Tripp's Approach to the Study of American English Address Form Usage | 第15-16页 |
| ·Chinese Scholars' Studies on Address Forms | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Two Address Forms | 第19-26页 |
| ·Definition of Address Forms | 第19-21页 |
| ·Main features of Address Forms | 第21-22页 |
| ·Classification of Address Forms | 第22-23页 |
| ·Significance of Proper Address Forms | 第23-26页 |
| ·Proper Address Forms | 第23页 |
| ·Addressing People Properly | 第23-26页 |
| ·Addressing in an Active Way | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Choice of Address Forms | 第24-25页 |
| ·Paying Attention to the Alteration of Address Forms | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Basic Theories Related to Address Forms | 第26-46页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundation of Address Forms | 第26-35页 |
| ·Study of Politeness Theories Abroad | 第26-32页 |
| ·Grice's Co-operative Principle | 第26-27页 |
| ·Lakoff's Model of Politeness | 第27页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principle | 第27-28页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Politeness Model | 第28-30页 |
| ·Goffman's Self-image Face | 第30-31页 |
| ·Ron Scollon and Suzanne Wong Scollon's Politeness Strategy of Involvement and Politeness Strategy of Independence | 第31-32页 |
| ·Domestic Studies on Politeness Theory | 第32-35页 |
| ·Gu Yueguo's Theory | 第33-34页 |
| ·Luming R. Mao | 第34-35页 |
| ·Others | 第35页 |
| ·More Basic Theories Related to Address Forms | 第35-46页 |
| ·Pragmatics | 第36-37页 |
| ·Politeness | 第37页 |
| ·Speech Act | 第37-41页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第37-41页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory and Politeness | 第41页 |
| ·Culture | 第41-46页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Language and Culture | 第42页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Address Forms and Culture | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Study of Address Forms in the Cross-cultural Communication | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Four Contrastive Studies on Address Forms | 第46-80页 |
| ·Two Sets of Address Form Systems | 第46-65页 |
| ·Name Terms | 第47-58页 |
| ·Family names | 第48-53页 |
| ·Chinese Family names | 第48-50页 |
| ·English Family names | 第50-53页 |
| ·Given Names | 第53-58页 |
| ·Chinese Given Names | 第53-56页 |
| ·English Given Names | 第56-58页 |
| ·Kinship Terms | 第58-61页 |
| ·Titles | 第61-63页 |
| ·Pronoun | 第63页 |
| ·Diminutive, Nickname and General Nouns | 第63-65页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies on Address Forms | 第65-80页 |
| ·Comparatively More Frequent Use of Full Name in Chinese than in English | 第65页 |
| ·Popular Use of First-naming (FN) in English | 第65-66页 |
| ·Extension of Address Term of Kinship, and a Greater Number of This Type of Kinship Terms in Chinese | 第66-68页 |
| ·The Extension of Personal Pronouns in Chinese | 第68-72页 |
| ·More Frequent Use of Various Social, Official and Occupational Titles in Chinese as Address Forms | 第72-73页 |
| ·Honorific and Self-abasing Terms in Chinese | 第73-77页 |
| ·Universal Address Forms in Chinese | 第77-80页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第80-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-86页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第86-89页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第89页 |
