| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Index to Tables | 第10-12页 |
| Index to Figures | 第12-14页 |
| Abbreviations | 第14-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-18页 |
| ·Background of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Purpose and significance of the study | 第16页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review on Refusal Studies | 第18-28页 |
| ·Definitions of refusal | 第18-19页 |
| ·Studies on refusal strategies | 第19-23页 |
| ·Studies on refusal strategies of adults | 第19-20页 |
| ·Studies on refusal strategies of children | 第20-22页 |
| ·Studies on correlations between refusal strategies and related variables | 第22-23页 |
| ·Cross-linguistic contrastive studies on refusals | 第23-25页 |
| ·Pragmatic studies on refusals | 第25-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter 2 A Longitudinal Study of Chinese-speaking Children’s Refusa | 第28-54页 |
| ·Research design | 第28-36页 |
| ·Subjects and methods | 第28页 |
| ·Collection and collation of data | 第28-31页 |
| ·Classification of children’s refusal strategies in this study | 第31-36页 |
| ·Hypotheses of the development of children’s refusals | 第36页 |
| ·Results and discussion | 第36-52页 |
| ·Development of children’s refusal strategies | 第37-44页 |
| ·Types of refusal strategies | 第37-39页 |
| ·Numbers and emerging time of refusal strategies | 第39-40页 |
| ·Indirect refusals | 第40-41页 |
| ·Compound refusals | 第41-42页 |
| ·Length of refusal production | 第42-44页 |
| ·Correlations between adults’subsequent responses and children’s refusals | 第44-52页 |
| ·Adults’subsequent responses | 第45-48页 |
| ·Correlations between adults’subsequent responses and children’s refusals | 第48-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 3 A Cross-linguistic Study of Children’s Refusals | 第54-74页 |
| ·A study on English-speaking children’s refusals | 第54-60页 |
| ·Subjects, collection and collation of data | 第54页 |
| ·Results and discussion | 第54-60页 |
| ·The top three strategies | 第55-56页 |
| ·Number of refusal strategies | 第56-57页 |
| ·Indirect refusals | 第57页 |
| ·Compound refusals | 第57-58页 |
| ·Sentence length of refusals | 第58-60页 |
| ·A comparative analysis of Chinese-speaking and English-speaking children’s refusal strategies | 第60-69页 |
| ·A comparison of types of refusal strategies | 第60-63页 |
| ·A comparison of number of refusal strategies | 第63-64页 |
| ·A comparison of indirect refusals | 第64-65页 |
| ·A comparison of compound refusals | 第65-66页 |
| ·A comparison of the length of each refusal | 第66-69页 |
| ·Correlations between the adults’subsequent responses and the children’s refusals | 第69-72页 |
| ·A contrastive study on adults’subsequent responses | 第69-70页 |
| ·A contrastive study on the correlations between the adults’subsequent responses and the children’s refusals | 第70-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第72-74页 |
| Conclusion | 第74-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81-83页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ (攻读学位期间主要研究成果目录) | 第83-85页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Data Collection Sample | 第85-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Sample of Transcription | 第87-89页 |
| 详细摘要 | 第89-102页 |
