| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| ·The Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Rational | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Structure of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Relevant Literature | 第17-31页 |
| ·What is Pragmatic Failure? | 第17-19页 |
| ·Thomas' Definition of Pragmatic Failure | 第17-18页 |
| ·He Ziran's Definition of Pragmatic Failure | 第18页 |
| ·Qian Guanlian's Definition of Pragmatic Failure | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Definition of Pragmatic Failure in This Dissertation | 第19页 |
| ·Existing Approaches to the Study of Pragmatic Failure | 第19-29页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Cross-cultural Communication | 第20-25页 |
| ·Different Value Systems and Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure | 第20-21页 |
| ·Different Styles of Communication and Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure | 第21-24页 |
| ·Different Understandings of Social Factors or Non-verbal Communication and Pragmatic Failure | 第24页 |
| ·Different relative weights of pragmatic principles | 第24-25页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Second Language Acquisition | 第25-27页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Foreign Language Teaching | 第27-29页 |
| ·Improper Teaching | 第27-29页 |
| ·Non-authentic Teaching Materials | 第29页 |
| ·The Reason of Choosing to Study Pragmatic Failure from the Perspective of Verschueren's Adaptation Theory | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Problems with the Existing Approaches | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Value of This Approach | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第31-35页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Perspective | 第31页 |
| ·Adaptation Theory | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter Four The Study of Pragmatic Failure from the Perspective of Adaptation Theory | 第35-61页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to Interpreters | 第35-38页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Mental World | 第38-44页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Interpreter's Personality Traits | 第39-40页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Interpreter's Emotion | 第40页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Interpreter's Value Systems | 第40-43页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Utterer's Intention | 第43-44页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Social World | 第44-55页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to Social Conventions | 第45-52页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Ethnicity or Race | 第45-46页 |
| ·Fail to Adapt to the Language User's Gender | 第46-47页 |
| ·Fail to Adapt to the Interpreter's Level of Education | 第47页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Addressee's Social Position | 第47-48页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Relationship with the Interlocutor | 第48-50页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Linguistic Group | 第50-52页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to Cultural Conventions | 第52-55页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Linguistic Reality | 第55-61页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Linguistic Reality in Intonation | 第56页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Linguistic Reality in Vocabulary | 第56-58页 |
| ·Fait to Make Adaptation to the Linguistic Reality in Syntax | 第58页 |
| ·Fail to Make Adaptation to the Linguistic Reality in Discourse | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter Five Measures Taken to Reduce or Avoid Pragmatic Failure | 第61-79页 |
| ·Measures Taken by Language Users | 第61-63页 |
| ·Measures Taken in Foreign Language Teaching | 第63-79页 |
| ·What is Pragmatic Competence | 第63-64页 |
| ·Whys of Developing Students' Pragmatic Competence | 第64-79页 |
| ·Providing Authentic Teaching Materials | 第64-66页 |
| ·Means Taken in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching | 第66-74页 |
| ·Integrating Foreign Language Teaching with Pragmatics | 第66-68页 |
| ·Integrating Foreign Language Teaching with Culture | 第68-74页 |
| ·Improving the Present Test | 第74-79页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第79-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-84页 |
