| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第12-18页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3 Objective and Research Questions of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-34页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies on Political Euphemism | 第18-31页 |
| 2.1.1 General Introduction of Political Euphemism | 第18-25页 |
| 2.1.2 Previous Studies on Political Euphemism Abroad | 第25-27页 |
| 2.1.3 Previous Studies on Political Euphemism in China | 第27-30页 |
| 2.1.4 Comments on Previous Studies | 第30-31页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies on Adaptation-Relevance Model | 第31-33页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Three THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第34-50页 |
| 3.1 Relevance Theory and Adaptation Theory | 第34-41页 |
| 3.1.1 Relevance Theory | 第34-37页 |
| 3.1.2 Adaptation Theory | 第37-40页 |
| 3.1.3 Comments on Relevance Theory and Adaptation Theory | 第40-41页 |
| 3.2 Adaptation-Relevance Model | 第41-48页 |
| 3.2.1 Introduction of Adaptation-Relevance Model | 第42-48页 |
| 3.2.2 Comments on Adaptation-Relevance Model | 第48页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL EUPHEMISM UNDERADAPTATION-RELEVANCE MODEL | 第50-84页 |
| 4.1 Political Speech | 第50-55页 |
| 4.1.1 Introduction of Political Speech | 第50-51页 |
| 4.1.2 Euphemism and Political Speech | 第51-55页 |
| 4.2 Methodology and Data Collection | 第55-61页 |
| 4.2.1 Methodology | 第56页 |
| 4.2.2 Data Collection and Analysis | 第56-61页 |
| 4.3 Results and Discussion | 第61-83页 |
| 4.3.1 Political Euphemism as a Process of Choice-making Based on the Presumption of Relevance | 第61-64页 |
| 4.3.2 Political Euphemism as a Dynamic Inter-adaptation between Linguistic Choices and Contextual Correlates | 第64-72页 |
| 4.3.3 Political Euphemism as a Process of Strategy-choosing | 第72-83页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第83-84页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第84-88页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings of the Study | 第84-85页 |
| 5.2 Limitations of the Study | 第85页 |
| 5.3 Suggestions for Further Study | 第85-88页 |
| REFERENCES | 第88-94页 |
| PUBLISHED PAPERS | 第94页 |
