| Abstract | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第5-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Significance of Linguistics Studies on Promise Making | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose of The Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Background | 第15-25页 |
| ·Direct Theoretical Basis of The Study: Speech Act Theory | 第15-21页 |
| ·J.L. Austin's Speech Act Theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·John Searle's Speech Act Theory | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Perspective of the Thesis: Intercultural Communication | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Three Related Research | 第25-35页 |
| ·'Promise' and Towards A History of Speech Act Theory | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Developing Theoretical Study on Speech Act: complaints,apologies, compliments and thanks | 第26-29页 |
| ·The Related Research with Promises and Culture | 第29-32页 |
| ·'The speech act of promising in an intercultural perspective' | 第29-31页 |
| ·'Promises in different cultures' | 第31-32页 |
| ·Inspiration to the Thesis Design | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Hypotheses Based on Related Research | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Four Method | 第35-42页 |
| ·Subjects | 第35-36页 |
| ·Instruments | 第36页 |
| ·Task | 第36-39页 |
| ·Frame Work | 第39-40页 |
| ·Procedure of Data analysis | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第42-72页 |
| ·Relationship 1:the Speaker and the Classmate | 第42-50页 |
| ·Situation 1 | 第42-46页 |
| ·Situation 5 | 第46-49页 |
| ·Contrast | 第49-50页 |
| ·Relationship 2: the Speaker (the Student) and the Professor | 第50-57页 |
| ·Situation 2 | 第50-53页 |
| ·Situntion 6 | 第53-56页 |
| ·Contrast | 第56-57页 |
| ·Relationship 3: the Speaker and the Friend (Close Friend) | 第57-64页 |
| ·Situation 3 | 第57-60页 |
| ·Situation 7 | 第60-63页 |
| ·Contrast | 第63-64页 |
| ·Relationship 4: the Speaker and the Stranger-Situation 4 | 第64-68页 |
| ·Distance, Power and Weight of Obligation about Situation 4 | 第64-65页 |
| ·The Choice of The Chinese | 第65-67页 |
| ·The Choice of The American | 第67-68页 |
| ·Overall | 第68页 |
| ·Relationship 5: the Speaker and the Family-Situation 8 | 第68-72页 |
| ·Distance, Power and Weight of Obligation about Situation 8 | 第68-69页 |
| ·The Answer of the Chinese | 第69-70页 |
| ·The Answer of the American | 第70页 |
| ·Overall | 第70-72页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第72-77页 |
| ·Summary | 第72-75页 |
| ·Implications | 第75-77页 |
| ·Application in the ESL classroom | 第75页 |
| ·Implication in theory | 第75-76页 |
| ·Limitations and Concluding Remarks | 第76-77页 |
| References | 第77-79页 |
| Appendixes | 第79-88页 |
| Appendix One Questionnaire in English | 第79-83页 |
| Appendix Two Questionnaire in Chinese | 第83-86页 |
| Appendix Three Data of Situations | 第86-88页 |
