| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-17页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第17-24页 |
| ·Purpose of the present study | 第17-19页 |
| ·Statement of the problem | 第19-22页 |
| ·Research questions | 第22页 |
| ·Outline of the dissertation | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第24-77页 |
| ·Interlanguage pragmatics | 第24-43页 |
| ·Pragmatic competence | 第24-26页 |
| ·Cognitive processing approach to ILP research | 第26-29页 |
| ·Schmidt’s noticing hypothesis | 第26-27页 |
| ·Bialystok’s two-dimensional model of L2 proficiency development | 第27-28页 |
| ·Complexification hypothesis | 第28-29页 |
| ·Pragmatic transfer | 第29-38页 |
| ·Pragmalilnguistic failure and sociopragmatic failure | 第30-31页 |
| ·Pragmalinguistic transfer and sociopragmatic transfer | 第31-32页 |
| ·Positive transfer and negative transfer | 第32-35页 |
| ·Correlation between linguistic proficiency and pragmatic transfer | 第35-38页 |
| ·Pragmatic competence and grammatical competence | 第38-39页 |
| ·Pragmatic developmental patterns | 第39-42页 |
| ·Studies on EFL learners’ILP development in China | 第42-43页 |
| ·Speech acts | 第43-49页 |
| ·Theories of speech act | 第43-45页 |
| ·Studies on speech acts | 第45-49页 |
| ·Cross-cultural studies on speech acts | 第46-47页 |
| ·Interlanguage studies on speech acts | 第47-48页 |
| ·Studies on speech act production | 第48-49页 |
| ·Politeness theories | 第49-55页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory | 第50-54页 |
| ·Scollon and Scollon’s politeness theory | 第54-55页 |
| ·Differences between western and Chinese face and politeness | 第55-58页 |
| ·Studies on the speech act of compliment | 第58-75页 |
| ·Linguistic variables of compliments | 第60-62页 |
| ·Syntactic patterns | 第60-61页 |
| ·Positive semantic carriers | 第61-62页 |
| ·Social variables of compliments | 第62-69页 |
| ·Compliment strategies | 第62-63页 |
| ·Functions of compliments | 第63-65页 |
| ·Topics of compliments | 第65-66页 |
| ·Social attributes of the interlocutors: Power, social distance,and gender | 第66-69页 |
| ·Chinese compliments | 第69-71页 |
| ·Studies on interlanguage compliment behavior | 第71-75页 |
| ·Yu’s study on Chinese EFL/ESL learners’compliment behavior | 第72-73页 |
| ·Holtman’s study on complimenting by learners of French | 第73-74页 |
| ·Jeon’s study on complimenting by Korean learners of English | 第74-75页 |
| ·Hypotheses of the present study | 第75-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76-77页 |
| Chapter Three Methods and Procedures | 第77-97页 |
| ·Research design | 第77页 |
| ·Participants | 第77-79页 |
| ·Data collection instruments | 第79-85页 |
| ·Written discourse completion task (DCT) | 第79-84页 |
| ·Rationale for the choice of DCT | 第79-81页 |
| ·Design of the DCT | 第81-84页 |
| ·Distribution of the DCT | 第84页 |
| ·Retrospective interview | 第84-85页 |
| ·Coding scheme | 第85-94页 |
| ·Coding scheme for compliment strategies | 第85-92页 |
| ·Main Compliment Strategies | 第87-89页 |
| ·Bound Compliment Strategies | 第89-92页 |
| ·Coding scheme for syntactic patterns | 第92-93页 |
| ·Coding scheme for compliment focus | 第93-94页 |
| ·Coding scheme for semantic carriers | 第94页 |
| ·Reliability of coding | 第94页 |
| ·Methods of data analysis | 第94-96页 |
| ·Quantitative analysis | 第95-96页 |
| ·Qualitative analysis | 第96页 |
| ·Summary | 第96-97页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Analysis | 第97-149页 |
| ·Sociopragmatic aspect of complimenting | 第97-137页 |
| ·Compliment strategies | 第97-130页 |
| ·Compliment strategies in the four politeness systems | 第100-107页 |
| ·Compliment strategies in relation to topics | 第107-112页 |
| ·Compliment strategies with politeness system and topic at interplay | 第112-126页 |
| ·Bound Strategies | 第126-130页 |
| ·Content of the compliments | 第130-132页 |
| ·Compliment focus | 第132-135页 |
| ·The native-speaker groups | 第133-134页 |
| ·The EFL-learner groups | 第134-135页 |
| ·Summary of findings in the sociopragmatic aspect | 第135-137页 |
| ·Pragmalinguistic aspect of complimenting | 第137-149页 |
| ·Syntactic patterns | 第137-142页 |
| ·The native-speaker groups | 第138-139页 |
| ·The EFL-learner groups | 第139-142页 |
| ·Positive semantic carriers | 第142-147页 |
| ·The native-speaker groups | 第143-145页 |
| ·The EFL-learner groups | 第145-147页 |
| ·Summary of findings in the pragmalinguistic aspect | 第147-149页 |
| Chapter Five Discussion | 第149-170页 |
| ·Research questions revisited | 第149-163页 |
| ·Answer to research question 1 | 第149-153页 |
| ·Answer to research question 2 | 第153-155页 |
| ·Answer to research question 3 | 第155-160页 |
| ·Answer to research question 4 | 第160-163页 |
| ·Sociopragmatic transfer | 第160-161页 |
| ·Pragmalinguistic transfer | 第161-163页 |
| ·Explanation of the Learners’performances | 第163-166页 |
| ·L1 transfer | 第163-164页 |
| ·Overgeneralization | 第164-165页 |
| ·Linguistic complexity | 第165-166页 |
| ·Teacher-induced errors | 第166页 |
| ·Proficiency effect on interlanguage pragmatic development | 第166-169页 |
| ·Summary | 第169-170页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions and Implications | 第170-177页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第170-172页 |
| ·Implications | 第172-175页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第172-173页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第173-175页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第175-176页 |
| ·Directions for future research | 第176-177页 |
| References | 第177-191页 |
| Appendix 1 Discourse Completion Task | 第191-196页 |
| Appendix 2 Questionnaires for the American participants | 第196页 |
| Appendix 3 Characteristics of the Participants of the Five Groups | 第196-197页 |
| Appendix 4 Positive Semantic Carriers used by Each Subject Group | 第197-202页 |
