| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·Background of Research | 第10-13页 |
| ·Significance of Research | 第13-15页 |
| ·Framework of This Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Debate and Presidential Debates | 第17-24页 |
| ·Understanding of Debate in Linguistics | 第17-18页 |
| ·American Presidential Debates | 第18-24页 |
| ·Format of American Presidential Debates | 第20-22页 |
| ·Function and Purpose of American Presidential Debates | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Linguistic Features of the 2004 American Presidential Debates | 第24-50页 |
| ·Employment of Modal Auxiliaries and Non-Factive Verbs at the Lexical Level | 第25-32页 |
| ·Choices of Tenses and Voices at the Syntactical Level | 第32-42页 |
| ·Application of Repetition and Rhetorical Questions at the Rhetorical Level | 第42-50页 |
| Chapter 4 Pragmatic Analysis of the 2004 American Presidential Debates | 第50-86页 |
| ·Pragmatics and Its Development | 第50-52页 |
| ·Pragmatic Analysis of the American Presidential Debates | 第52-86页 |
| ·Employment of Pragmatic Presupposition | 第52-60页 |
| ·Incarnation of Speech Act Theory | 第60-66页 |
| ·Fulfillment of Cooperative Principle | 第66-73页 |
| ·Violation of Politeness Principle | 第73-80页 |
| ·Application of Relevance Theory | 第80-86页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第86-91页 |
| Works Cited | 第91-96页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文和取得的科研成果 | 第96页 |
