| ABSTRACT | 第3-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第8-17页 |
| 1.1 Background of the study | 第8-10页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the study | 第10-13页 |
| 1.3 Research methodology | 第13-15页 |
| 1.4 Overall structure of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-29页 |
| 2.1 Previous studies on compliment at home and abroad | 第17-20页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on compliment responses at home and abroad | 第20-29页 |
| 2.2.1 Definition and functional categories of compliment responses | 第20-24页 |
| 2.2.2 Sociolinguistic variational studies of compliment responses | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2.3 Cross-cultural pragmatic studies of compliment responses | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2.4 Interlanguage studies of compliment responses | 第27-29页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第29-41页 |
| 3.1 Variational pragmatics | 第29-33页 |
| 3.1.1 Types of language variation | 第30-32页 |
| 3.1.2 Levels of pragmatic analysis | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2 Holmes’ functional categories of compliment responses | 第33-36页 |
| 3.3 Verschueren’s adaptation theory | 第36-39页 |
| 3.3.1 Three key notions in adaptation theory | 第36-37页 |
| 3.3.2 Four angles of investigation | 第37-39页 |
| 3.4 A tentative framework of the realization of compliment responses | 第39-41页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF AMERICAN AND BRITISHCOMPLIMENT RESPONSES | 第41-65页 |
| 4.1 Functional categories of compliment responses in British English | 第41-49页 |
| 4.2 Functional categories of compliment responses in American English | 第49-55页 |
| 4.3 A contrastive analysis of American and British compliment responses | 第55-62页 |
| 4.3.1 The pattern of compliment response strategies at the macro level | 第56-57页 |
| 4.3.2 The pattern of compliment response strategies at the micro level | 第57-59页 |
| 4.3.3 Combination strategies | 第59-62页 |
| 4.4 An adaptive theoretic analysis of American and British compliment responses | 第62-65页 |
| CHAPTER FIVECONCLUSION | 第65-71页 |
| 5.1 Major findings | 第65-68页 |
| 5.1.1 Statistical findings | 第65-67页 |
| 5.1.2 Theoretical findings | 第67-68页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the present study | 第68-69页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and suggestions for further studies | 第69-71页 |
| REFERENCES | 第71-77页 |
| APPENDIX | 第77-78页 |
