| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter 2 Some Previous Basic Findings | 第12-28页 |
| ·Turn-taking in English Conversation | 第12-15页 |
| ·Interruptions and Overlaps | 第15-18页 |
| ·Definitions of Turn | 第18-20页 |
| ·Turn-taking and Projectabilities | 第20-24页 |
| ·Conversational Style | 第24-25页 |
| ·Adjacency Pairs | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Practice: Rule Violations and Motivations | 第28-53页 |
| ·Pauses, Overlaps, and Backchannels | 第28-31页 |
| ·Speech Act and Turn-taking | 第31-35页 |
| ·Speaker Changes | 第35-53页 |
| ·Speaker Changes at CTRPs | 第35-36页 |
| ·Speaker Changes at Non-CTRPs | 第36-46页 |
| ·No Speaker Changes at CTRPs | 第46-51页 |
| ·Summary | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter 4 Application: Ways to Solve Conversational Problems | 第53-72页 |
| ·Pre-conversational Planning | 第53-54页 |
| ·Opening Conversations | 第54-55页 |
| ·Preference Structure | 第55-61页 |
| ·Turn-taking Signals | 第61-67页 |
| ·Some Useful Expressions for Yielding the Floor | 第62-64页 |
| ·Some Useful Expressions for Holding the Floor | 第64-65页 |
| ·Some Useful Expressions for Claiming the Floor | 第65-66页 |
| ·Some Useful Backchannel Expressions | 第66-67页 |
| ·Self-monitoring | 第67-69页 |
| ·Self-interruptions | 第68页 |
| ·Editing Expressions | 第68-69页 |
| ·Self-repairs | 第69页 |
| ·Closing Conversations | 第69-72页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第72-75页 |
| ·An Overview on the Findings | 第72-74页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第74-75页 |
| Bibliography | 第75-78页 |