| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| Research Objectives and Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| Significance of the Research | 第14页 |
| Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| 1.1 Previous Researches on Chinese Third Person Pronoun | 第16-20页 |
| 1.1.1 Origin and Development of Chinese Third Person Pronoun | 第16-18页 |
| 1.1.2 Third Person Pronoun of Rulin Dialect | 第18-20页 |
| 1.2 Previous Researches on Language Change | 第20-26页 |
| 1.2.1 Real Time and Apparent Time | 第20-22页 |
| 1.2.2 Patterns of Linguistic Change | 第22-24页 |
| 1.2.3 Adolescents and Language Change | 第24-26页 |
| 1.3 Comments on Previous Researches | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Two Language Contact | 第28-35页 |
| 2.1 Contact Between Dialect and Standard Language | 第28-30页 |
| 2.1.1 Language versus Dialect | 第28-29页 |
| 2.1.2 Bilingualism and Diglossia | 第29-30页 |
| 2.2 Contact-induced Language Change | 第30-35页 |
| 2.2.1 Borrowing and Code-mixing | 第31-32页 |
| 2.2.2 Language Shift | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第35-42页 |
| 3.1 Hypothesis | 第35页 |
| 3.2 Selection and Identification of Variants | 第35-36页 |
| 3.3 Selection of Informants | 第36-38页 |
| 3.3.1 Age of Informants | 第37页 |
| 3.3.2 Gender of Informants | 第37-38页 |
| 3.4 Data Collection | 第38-40页 |
| 3.4.1 Tape-recorded Spontaneous Speech | 第38-39页 |
| 3.4.2 Observation of Daily Conversation | 第39-40页 |
| 3.5 Data Processing | 第40-42页 |
| 3.5.1 Transcription of Speech Data | 第40页 |
| 3.5.2 Distributional and Multivariate Analysis | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第42-58页 |
| 4.1 Variation of Third Person Pronoun | 第42-46页 |
| 4.1.1 Overall Distribution of Third Person Pronoun | 第42-43页 |
| 4.1.2 Variation of Singular Third Person Pronoun | 第43-44页 |
| 4.1.3 Variation of Plural Third Person Pronoun | 第44-46页 |
| 4.2 Frequency of Use of Variants across Generations | 第46-48页 |
| 4.2.1 Overall Distribution of Ta and Ji | 第46-47页 |
| 4.2.2 Overall Distribution of Ta li, Ji li and Ta men | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3 Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting Variation among Different Age Groups | 第48-58页 |
| 4.3.1 30-Year-Old Generation as the Watershed | 第48-53页 |
| 4.3.2 Factors among People under 30 Years Old | 第53-54页 |
| 4.3.3 Factors among People above 30 Years Old | 第54-58页 |
| Chapter Five Social Causes for the Variation and Implications | 第58-63页 |
| 5.1 Social Causes for the Variation | 第58-60页 |
| 5.1.1 Influences from Putonghua and Surrounding Dialects | 第58-59页 |
| 5.1.2 Adolescents’ Innovation on Language | 第59-60页 |
| 5.2 Implications | 第60-63页 |
| 5.2.1 Forecast the Trend of Third Person Pronoun Variation of Rulin Dialect | 第60-61页 |
| 5.2.2 Preservation of Local Dialect | 第61-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Works Cited | 第65-68页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第68-69页 |
| Appendix A: Coding for Each Factor Group | 第69-70页 |
| Appendix B: Samples of Third Person Pronoun Variation from theExcel Data Base | 第70-72页 |
| Informative Abstract in Chinese | 第72-75页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第75页 |
