| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Abbreviations | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| 1.1 Background | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2 Purpose of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| 1.3 Significance of the Study | 第17-18页 |
| 1.4 General Organization of the Study | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-42页 |
| 2.1 Pragmatic Theories | 第19-25页 |
| 2.1.1 Speech Act Theory | 第19-22页 |
| 2.1.2 Cooperation Principle | 第22-23页 |
| 2.1.3 Politeness Principle | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2 SLA Theories | 第25-30页 |
| 2.2.1 Language Competence | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2.2 Transfer Theory | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2.3 The Approaches to Teaching EFL/ESL Pragmatic Knowledge | 第28-30页 |
| 2.3 Studies on Speech Act of Compliment | 第30-38页 |
| 2.3.1 Definition of Compliments | 第30-31页 |
| 2.3.2 A General Review of Studies on the Speech Act of Compliment | 第31-34页 |
| 2.3.3 Compliment Linguistic Variables | 第34-35页 |
| 2.3.4 Compliment Social Variables | 第35-36页 |
| 2.3.5 Compliment Response Strategies | 第36-38页 |
| 2.4 Studies on the Pragmatic Evaluation of EFL/ESL Textbooks | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design and Methodology | 第42-52页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第42页 |
| 3.2 Textbooks Selected | 第42-44页 |
| 3.3 Evaluation Scheme | 第44-50页 |
| 3.3.1 Corpus Building | 第44-45页 |
| 3.3.2 Coding Scheme for Compliment Semantic Carriers | 第45-47页 |
| 3.3.3 Coding Scheme for Compliment Syntactic Patterns | 第47-48页 |
| 3.3.4 Coding Scheme for Compliment Topics | 第48-49页 |
| 3.3.5 Coding Scheme for Compliment Response Strategies | 第49-50页 |
| 3.4 Data Collection | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussions | 第52-67页 |
| 4.1 A Comparison of Compliment Semantic Carriers between NCE and OE | 第52-57页 |
| 4.1.1 Adjectives in Compliments | 第53-55页 |
| 4.1.2 Verbs in Compliments | 第55-56页 |
| 4.1.3 Adverbs in Compliments | 第56-57页 |
| 4.1.4 Nouns in Compliments | 第57页 |
| 4.2 A Comparison of Compliment Syntactic Patterns between NCE and OE | 第57-61页 |
| 4.3 A Comparison of Compliment Topics between NCE and OE | 第61-63页 |
| 4.4 A Comparison of Compliment Response Strategies between NCE and OE | 第63-67页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第67-73页 |
| 5.1 Findings | 第67-68页 |
| 5.2 Suggestions for Textbook Revision and Pragmatic Teaching | 第68-71页 |
| 5.2.1 Suggestions for Textbook Revision | 第69页 |
| 5.2.2 Suggestions for Pragmatic Teaching | 第69-71页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the Research | 第71-72页 |
| 5.4 Suggestions for Further Study | 第72-73页 |
| References | 第73-82页 |
| Appendix | 第82-83页 |
