| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第10-20页 |
| ·What is a speech act? | 第10页 |
| ·What is an indirect speech act? | 第10-13页 |
| ·Politeness: the major concern of indirect speech acts | 第13-14页 |
| ·How to be polite? | 第14-15页 |
| ·The directive of advice-giving: delimitation and characteristics | 第15-20页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第20-31页 |
| ·Setting | 第20页 |
| ·Participants | 第20-21页 |
| ·Data collection and data transcription | 第21-23页 |
| ·D ata collection | 第21-23页 |
| ·D ata transcription | 第23页 |
| ·D ata analysis | 第23-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and discussion | 第31-38页 |
| ·The speech act of advising and its type | 第31页 |
| ·Lexical features of sentences performing the speech act of advising | 第31-32页 |
| ·Syntactic features of sentences performing the speech act of advising | 第32-34页 |
| ·Semantic features of sentences performing the speech act of advising | 第34-35页 |
| ·Politeness strategies in performing the speech act of advising | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第38-40页 |
| Bibliography | 第40-42页 |
