| Chinese Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Literature Review of Models of Communication | 第9-11页 |
| ·Significance and Originality of this Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Adaptation-Relevance Model and Intercultural Communication | 第13-21页 |
| ·Communication as a Relevance-oriented Process | 第15-17页 |
| ·Dynamic Interadaptation between Linguistic and Contextual Choices in Intercultural Communication | 第17-18页 |
| ·Presumption of Relevance: Deciding Choices of a Particular Utterance in the Communication Process | 第18-19页 |
| ·Adaptation and Relevance: Deciding Choices of Communication Strategies | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Adaptation and Relevance Governing the Production and Interpretation of Utterance in Three Different Worlds | 第21-46页 |
| ·Adaptation and Relevance in Communicators’Mental World | 第22-30页 |
| ·Communicators’Adaptation and Relevance Motivated by Cognitive Elements | 第22-27页 |
| ·Communicators’Adaptation and Relevance Motivated by Emotive Elements | 第27-30页 |
| ·Adaptation and Relevance in Communicators’Social World | 第30-41页 |
| ·Social Relationship：High Power Distance and Low Power Distance | 第31-34页 |
| ·Cultural Values：Individualism and Collectivism | 第34-38页 |
| ·Social Conventions: Habits and Customs | 第38-41页 |
| ·Adaptation and Relevance in Communicators’Physical World | 第41-46页 |
| ·Temporal Reference and Dynamics of Adaptation-Relevance | 第41-43页 |
| ·Spatial Reference and Dynamics of Adaptation-Relevance | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter 3 Positive Functions of Adaptation-Relevance Model in Intercultural Communication | 第46-54页 |
| ·Improving Communicators’Adaptation Competence | 第46-50页 |
| ·Motivating Communicators to Exhibit Their Own Cultures | 第47-48页 |
| ·Inspiring Communicators to Learn from Other Cultures | 第48-50页 |
| ·Improving Communicators’Relevance Competence | 第50-52页 |
| ·Enhancing Communicators’Intercultural Communicative Competence | 第52-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| References | 第56-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61-62页 |
| Informative Chinese Abstract | 第62-65页 |
| Résuméand Publications since Entering the Program | 第65页 |
