| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-20页 |
| 1．1 What are Hedges | 第9-11页 |
| 1．2 Brief Review of the Study of Hedges | 第11-13页 |
| 1．3 Classifications and Functions of Hedges | 第13-18页 |
| 1．4 The Aim of This Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two Analysis of Hedges from the Perspective of Meaning | 第20-27页 |
| 2．1 Syntactic Functions of Hedges | 第20-22页 |
| 2．2 Conceptual Meaning | 第22页 |
| 2．3 Connotative Meaning | 第22-23页 |
| 2．4 Social and Affective Meaning | 第23-24页 |
| 2．5 Thematic Meaning | 第24-25页 |
| 2．6 Reflected and Collocative Meaning | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Understanding Hedges in Context | 第27-41页 |
| 3．1 Review of Context | 第27-29页 |
| 3．2 Verschueren's Perspective of Communicative Context | 第29-36页 |
| 3．2．1 Language users: utterer and interpreter | 第30-31页 |
| 3．2．2 The mental world | 第31-34页 |
| 3．2．3 The social world | 第34-35页 |
| 3．2．4 The physical world | 第35-36页 |
| 3．3 Analysis of Hedges with the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle | 第36-39页 |
| 3．3．1 The cooperative principle | 第36-37页 |
| 3．3．2 The politeness principle | 第37-39页 |
| 3．4 Reconsideration on Hedges | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Four Teaching Hedges with Pragmatic Principles | 第41-58页 |
| 4．1 Pragmatic Competence | 第42-44页 |
| 4．2 Development of the Acquisition of Second Language Pragmatics | 第44-47页 |
| 4．3 L2 Learners' Pragmatic Features | 第47-52页 |
| 4．3．1 Choice of speech | 第48-49页 |
| 4．3．2 Semantic form | 第49-50页 |
| 4．3．3 Semantic content | 第50-51页 |
| 4．3．4 Language structure | 第51-52页 |
| 4．3．5 Reasons for L2 learners' pragmatic features | 第52页 |
| 4．4 Significance of Teaching Hedges | 第52-58页 |
| 4．4．1 Significance of teaching hedges | 第52-54页 |
| 4．4．2． Teaching pragmatics | 第54-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| 5．1 Summary | 第58-59页 |
| 5．2 Limitations of the Study and Some Possibilities of Further Study | 第59-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-65页 |
| 个人成果简介 | 第65-66页 |
| 声明 | 第66-67页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第67页 |
