| Chapter I Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| ·Linguistic History of Computer and the Internet Language | 第11-13页 |
| ·Purpose of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第17-24页 |
| ·CMC Language | 第17-20页 |
| ·CMC as Anonymous and Barrier-free | 第18-19页 |
| ·Openness in CMC | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Mainstream CMC Research Agenda | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Social Presence Model | 第21-22页 |
| ·Media Richness Theory | 第22页 |
| ·The Cueless Model | 第22页 |
| ·Reduced Social Cues (RSC) Approach | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter III Linguistic Description of the IRC Language | 第24-33页 |
| ·Categorization of CMC | 第24-25页 |
| ·Asynchronous CMC | 第24页 |
| ·Synchronous CMC (IRC) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of the IRC Language | 第25-33页 |
| ·Numeric and Alphabetic Application in the IRC Words | 第25-27页 |
| ·Morphological Rules of the IRC Language | 第27-29页 |
| ·Paralinguistic Cues | 第29-33页 |
| Chapter IV Contrastive Analysis of Traditional Language and the IRC Language | 第33-40页 |
| ·Transmission Carrier: Acoustic Waves vs. Internet | 第33-34页 |
| ·Genre: Spoken vs. Written | 第34-35页 |
| ·Transmission Logics: Linear Logic vs. Nonlinear Logic | 第35-36页 |
| ·Function and Scope: Irreplaceable vs. Complimentary | 第36页 |
| ·Situation: Restrictive vs. Open & Free | 第36-37页 |
| ·Interactiveness: Formularized vs. Initiated | 第37-38页 |
| ·Criterion & Stability: Stable vs. Mutable | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter V Comparative Analysis of IRC and FTF Conversation | 第40-73页 |
| ·Conversation Analysis | 第40-61页 |
| ·Method | 第40页 |
| ·Analysis of Turn-taking | 第40-48页 |
| ·Analysis of Adjacency Pairs | 第48-53页 |
| ·Analysis of Insertion Sequences and Side Sequences | 第53-55页 |
| ·Analysis of Preference Organization | 第55-57页 |
| ·Analysis of Pre-sequences | 第57-61页 |
| ·Pragmatic Analysis | 第61-73页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxim of Quality | 第62-65页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxim of Quantity | 第65-67页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxim of Manner | 第67-69页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxim of Relevance | 第69-73页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusion | 第73-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-81页 |
| APPENDIX | 第81-82页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第82-86页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第86-91页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第91-92页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第92-93页 |
