| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·The Background of the Research | 第11-14页 |
| ·The Importance of Investigating Impoliteness | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Benefits of Using this Type of Data | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Research Questions and Methodology | 第14页 |
| ·The Innovations and Significances | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Organization of the Present Research | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-27页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Fortress Besieged | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Background | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Plot | 第18页 |
| ·The Previous Researches on Fortress Besieged | 第18-27页 |
| ·The First Period of Fortress Besieged Research (1950s-1970s) | 第20页 |
| ·The Second Period of Fortress Besieged Research (1980s) | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Third Period of Fortress Besieged Research (1990s) | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Fourth Period of Fortress Besieged Research (the 21stcentury) | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第27-35页 |
| ·An Integrated Socio-cognitive Model of Impoliteness | 第27-32页 |
| ·Face, Social norms and Social rights | 第29-30页 |
| ·Context, Activity Types | 第30-31页 |
| ·Intention | 第31页 |
| ·Emotion | 第31-32页 |
| ·Implicational Impoliteness | 第32-34页 |
| ·Functions of Impoliteness | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Implicational Impoliteness Driven in Fortress Besieged | 第35-61页 |
| ·Implicational Impoliteness: Form-driven | 第35-49页 |
| ·Flouting of Maxim of Quality | 第35-39页 |
| ·Flouting of Maxim of Quantity | 第39-41页 |
| ·Flouting of Maxim of Relation | 第41-44页 |
| ·Flouting of Maxim of Manner | 第44-49页 |
| ·Implicational Impoliteness: Convention-driven | 第49-54页 |
| ·Internal | 第49-51页 |
| ·External | 第51-54页 |
| ·Implicational Impoliteness: Context-driven | 第54-61页 |
| ·The Enforcement of Role-switching | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Total Absence of Behaviors | 第57-61页 |
| Chapter 5 The Functions of Implicational Impoliteness in Fortress Besieged | 第61-69页 |
| ·Literary Function | 第61-65页 |
| ·Portraying Typical Literary Images | 第61-63页 |
| ·Promoting the Plots of the Novel Forward | 第63-64页 |
| ·Expressing the Themes of the Novel | 第64页 |
| ·Bring Pleasure to Readers | 第64-65页 |
| ·Communication Function | 第65-69页 |
| ·Realizing Special Goal of Communicators | 第65-66页 |
| ·Adjusting the Relationship of Communicators | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第69-73页 |
| ·A General Summary of the Thesis | 第69页 |
| ·Major Foundings | 第69-70页 |
| ·The Limitations to the Present Study | 第70-71页 |
| ·Areas for Future Research | 第71-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-79页 |
| Appendix A | 第79-81页 |
| Appendix B | 第81-84页 |
