| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第9-10页 |
| ·General Statement | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第14-21页 |
| ·Conversational Analysis | 第15-18页 |
| ·Regularities of Turn Taking | 第15-16页 |
| ·Adjacency Pairs | 第16页 |
| ·Preferred Option | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Significance of Silence | 第17-18页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第18-21页 |
| ·Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act and Perlocutionary Act | 第18页 |
| ·Direct Speech Act | 第18-19页 |
| ·Indirect Speech Act | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three The Dumb Waiter—Male Conflict for Identity and Dominance. | 第21-32页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Conversational Analysis | 第21-28页 |
| ·Topic Management—a Weapon for Identity and Control | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Significance of Silence | 第23-28页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Speech Act Theory | 第28-31页 |
| ·Direct Speech Acts and Indirect Speech Acts | 第29-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter Four The Room—Male Dominance Over Females | 第32-41页 |
| ·The Significance of Silence | 第32-33页 |
| ·Tautology—the Effete Discourse | 第33-38页 |
| ·Classification of Rose’s Tautology | 第33-35页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Speech Act Theory | 第35-38页 |
| ·Male Dominance over Females | 第38-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Five The Homecoming—Female Struggle and Dominance over Males | 第41-51页 |
| ·Analysis of Discourse Conflict Between Teddy and Ruth | 第42-45页 |
| ·Teddy’s Discourse Stratagems from the Perspective of Conversational Analysis | 第42-43页 |
| ·Ruth’s Discourse Stratagems from the Perspective of Conversational Analysis | 第43-45页 |
| ·Analysis of Discourse Conflict Between Lenny and Ruth | 第45-50页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Conversational Analysis | 第45-48页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Speech Act Theory | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-57页 |
| Appendix | 第57-61页 |
