| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第7-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-16页 |
| ·Research background | 第10-12页 |
| ·Motivations and significance of the research | 第12-14页 |
| ·Layout of this thesis | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERACTURE REVIEW | 第16-28页 |
| ·The tradition of interactional prosody and research norm | 第16-18页 |
| ·Previous work on onset design | 第18-25页 |
| ·Turn-taking and onset design | 第19-22页 |
| ·The sequence and function study of onset | 第22-24页 |
| ·Onset configuration | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary of the chapter | 第25-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第28-39页 |
| ·The data | 第28-29页 |
| ·The tool | 第29页 |
| ·Conversation analysis | 第29-34页 |
| ·Sequence organization | 第30-31页 |
| ·Turn taking practices | 第31-32页 |
| ·Preference organization | 第32-33页 |
| ·Institutional talk | 第33-34页 |
| ·Phonetic analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Transcription method | 第35-37页 |
| ·Justifications | 第37-39页 |
| CHPATER FOUR RESULTS AND ANALYSIS | 第39-65页 |
| ·The setting and its sequence organization | 第39-43页 |
| ·The setting of institutional conflict talk | 第39-41页 |
| ·The summon-answer sequence in the television debate setting | 第41-43页 |
| ·Onset design in the conflict setting | 第43-47页 |
| ·Onset design in the summon-answer sequence | 第47-63页 |
| ·The design of onset position | 第47-51页 |
| ·The design of onset position configuration | 第51-58页 |
| ·Preference organization in conflict institutional settings | 第58-63页 |
| ·Summary of the chapter | 第63-65页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第65-70页 |
| ·Summary of the research | 第65页 |
| ·Research findings | 第65-67页 |
| ·Implications and significance of the research | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations of the research | 第68-69页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第69-70页 |
| REFERENCES | 第70-77页 |
| LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES | 第77-78页 |
| LIST OF TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS | 第78页 |
