| Abstract (English) | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第7-8页 |
| Table of contents | 第8-11页 |
| List of figures | 第11-12页 |
| Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-22页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13-14页 |
| ·Rationale of the present study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Objectives and research questions of the present study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Objectives of the present study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research questions | 第16页 |
| ·Interviewer statement: target of the present study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Data and methodology for this research | 第17-20页 |
| ·Overview of the thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第22-31页 |
| ·Introduction | 第22页 |
| ·Different approaches to the statement studies | 第22-26页 |
| ·Statement classification in terms of different standards | 第22-23页 |
| ·Syntactic and functional approach to the statements | 第23-26页 |
| ·Previous studies of interviewer statement | 第26-30页 |
| ·Conversational analysis approach to the studies of interviewer statements | 第26-29页 |
| ·Studies of interviewers' prefatory statements | 第29-30页 |
| ·Critical evaluation of previous studies | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical framework | 第31-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31页 |
| ·Theoretical background of the present study | 第31-38页 |
| ·John Searle's taxonomy of illocutionary acts | 第31-34页 |
| ·A standard for the classification of illocutionary functions | 第34-36页 |
| ·Speech convergence in Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) | 第36页 |
| ·Communicative Principle of Relevance and optimal relevance in Relevance Theory | 第36-38页 |
| ·Conceptual framework of the present study | 第38-42页 |
| ·New classification of interviewer statements' illocutionary functions | 第38-39页 |
| ·Relevant-accommodative model for the present study | 第39-42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter Four Illocutionary functions of interviewer statements | 第43-61页 |
| ·Introduction | 第43页 |
| ·Initial category of interviewer statement in Chinese TV interview | 第43-54页 |
| ·Statements in the category of illocutionary acts | 第44-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| ·Illocutionary functions of two kinds of interviewer statement | 第54-60页 |
| ·Interviewer statements as assertives | 第55-57页 |
| ·Interviewer statements as expressives | 第57-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-61页 |
| Chapter Five Interviewer's interpretation towards interviewee's response in a relevance-theoretic perspective | 第61-82页 |
| ·Introduction | 第61页 |
| ·Interviewer's interpretation in the TV interview | 第61-75页 |
| ·Three factors concerning the interviewer's interpretation process | 第61-62页 |
| ·Interviewer's interpretation in terms of contextual effect and processing effort | 第62-67页 |
| ·The role of context in the interviewer's interpretation | 第67-72页 |
| ·The procedures of interviewer's interpretation | 第72-75页 |
| ·The application of statement as speech convergence | 第75-81页 |
| ·Summary | 第81-82页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第82-87页 |
| ·Introduction | 第82页 |
| ·Summary for major findings | 第82-83页 |
| ·Implications | 第83-84页 |
| ·Limitations | 第84-85页 |
| ·Suggestions for further research | 第85-87页 |
| Appendices | 第87-89页 |
| References | 第89-92页 |
