| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| 2. Literary Review of Politeness Theory | 第11-23页 |
| ·Main body of Leech’s Politeness Theory in the 19805 | 第11-13页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson’s Thoughts on Politeness | 第13-15页 |
| ·Criticism and Leech’s Amendments | 第15-20页 |
| ·The Society-based Politeness Theory | 第20-23页 |
| 3. The Influence of Confucianism on Chinese Language and Conversation | 第23-32页 |
| ·Li and politeness | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Golden Mean and Ambiguity | 第25-27页 |
| ·Confucian Thoughts on Language Use Reflected in Analects | 第27-32页 |
| 4. A Detailed Analysis of Chinese Conversational Phenomena and Strategies from the Politeness Perspective | 第32-55页 |
| ·Conversational Phenomena with Chinese Characteristics | 第32-40页 |
| ·Self Denigration and Respecting the Others | 第32-35页 |
| ·Affirmative Propensity and Cooperation in Chinese Conversation | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Politeness Strategy of the Golden Mean | 第36-37页 |
| ·Particles in Chinese as the Functors of Politeness | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Strategy on Compliment Response in Comparative Studies | 第40-47页 |
| ·Politeness Strategy and the Issue of mian zi, zi ji ren, wai ren, han xu, and ke qi | 第47-55页 |
| ·Give mian zi and Save mian zi | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Comparison Between zi ji ren and wai ren | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Concept of han xu | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Prevalent Use of ke qi | 第52-55页 |
| 5. The Socio-cultural analysis of Politeness in Chinese Language | 第55-64页 |
| ·The Appellation of Politeness in Chinese | 第55-59页 |
| ·Peaceful Orientations of Chinese Civilization | 第59-64页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| 7. References | 第66-69页 |
