| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-21页 |
| ·The topic of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·The purpose and significance of the study | 第15-18页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第18页 |
| ·The organization of the thesis | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of Previous Approaches to Silence | 第21-26页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·The interdisciplinary study of silence abroad | 第21-24页 |
| ·The current study of silence at home | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Turn-silence and Conversational Discourse | 第26-42页 |
| ·Introduction | 第26页 |
| ·Turn-taking and its rules | 第26-28页 |
| ·Turn-taking | 第26-27页 |
| ·Turn-taking rules | 第27-28页 |
| ·The classification of silence and ton silence | 第28-32页 |
| ·Classification of silence | 第28-29页 |
| ·Adjacency pairs and turn silence | 第29-32页 |
| ·Turn-silence and conversational analysis | 第32-36页 |
| ·Turn-silence and the Cooperative Principle | 第36-41页 |
| ·Interpretative principle | 第36-39页 |
| ·The defects of Grice's Cooperative Principle | 第39-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter Four An Account of Turn Silence from the Perspective of Cognitive Pragmatics | 第42-74页 |
| ·Introduction | 第42页 |
| ·A general survey of relevance theory | 第42-53页 |
| ·The origin of Relevance | 第42-44页 |
| ·Relevance and cognition | 第44-47页 |
| ·Relevance and communication | 第47-50页 |
| ·Relevance and comprehension | 第50-53页 |
| ·Context and contextual effects | 第53-56页 |
| ·Mutual knowledge and mutual manifestation | 第56-58页 |
| ·Turn silence's informative intention and communicative intention | 第58-62页 |
| ·Utterance's informative intention and communicative intention | 第58-59页 |
| ·Turn silence's implicature and informative intention and communicative intention | 第59-62页 |
| ·Turn silence's relevance and contextual effects | 第62-67页 |
| ·Function of turn silence: keeping the channel of communication open | 第67-70页 |
| ·Cultural differences of turn silence between East and West | 第70-73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-74页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第74-82页 |
| ·Implications of the study: silence in our language class | 第74-78页 |
| ·Teacher's silence | 第74-77页 |
| ·Students' silence | 第77-78页 |
| ·The summary of the study | 第78-79页 |
| ·The limitations and further study | 第79-80页 |
| ·Limitations | 第79-80页 |
| ·Further study | 第80页 |
| ·Concluding remarks of the study | 第80-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-84页 |
