| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract in English | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·The Rationale of the Present Study. | 第10页 |
| ·Objectives and Significance of the Present Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Data Collection and Methodology | 第11页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第11页 |
| ·Methodology | 第11页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·About Talk Shows | 第13-17页 |
| ·Brief History of the TV Talk Shows | 第13-14页 |
| ·Definition of Talk Shows | 第14-15页 |
| ·Types of TV Talk Shows | 第15-16页 |
| ·Current Studies of TV Talk Shows | 第16-17页 |
| ·Studies of Appropriateness | 第17-21页 |
| ·Definition of Appropriateness | 第17-18页 |
| ·Important Status of Appropriateness | 第18-21页 |
| ·Appropriateness ——the Principle of Rhetoric Proposed by Wang Xiji | 第18-19页 |
| ·Tact Maxim in the Principle of Pragmatics | 第19页 |
| ·Appropriateness as the Supreme Pragmatic Principle | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第21-28页 |
| ·Context | 第21-22页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle (CP) | 第22-23页 |
| ·Politeness | 第23-26页 |
| ·Lakoff’s Model of Politeness | 第23-24页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principle (PP) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Gu’s Politeness Model | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Face Theory | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Four Context of TV Talk Shows and Its Impacts on the Host’s language | 第28-36页 |
| ·Constituent Elements in the Context of Chinese TV Talk Shows and Their Impacts on the Host’s Language | 第28-33页 |
| ·Linguistic Symbol Elements | 第28-29页 |
| ·The language Used in Conversation | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Linguistic Context | 第29页 |
| ·Non-linguistic Symbol Elements | 第29-33页 |
| ·Background Knowledge | 第30-31页 |
| ·Knowledge of Specific Situation | 第31-33页 |
| ·Characteristics of the Context of Chinese TV Talk Shows and Their Impacts on the Host’s Language | 第33-36页 |
| ·Duality | 第33-34页 |
| ·Dynamics | 第34页 |
| ·Bidirection | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis of the Appropriateness of the Host’s Language | 第36-54页 |
| ·The Host’s Leading Status of Speech | 第36-38页 |
| ·Controlling the Topic | 第36-37页 |
| ·Putting Forward the Topic | 第36页 |
| ·Developing the Topic | 第36-37页 |
| ·Summing up the Topic | 第37页 |
| ·Speech Forms | 第37-38页 |
| ·Questioning | 第37页 |
| ·Interrupting | 第37页 |
| ·Making comments | 第37-38页 |
| ·Conversational Principles and Appropriateness of the Host’s Language | 第38-54页 |
| ·Appropriateness and Cooperative Principle, Politeness Principle, Face Theory | 第38-39页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and Appropriateness of the Host’s Language | 第39-44页 |
| ·Observe the Maxim of Quantity | 第39-41页 |
| ·Observe the Maxim of Quality | 第41页 |
| ·Observe the Maxim of Relation | 第41-43页 |
| ·Observe the Maxim of Manner | 第43-44页 |
| ·Politeness Principle, Face Theory and the Appropriateness of the Host’s Language | 第44-54页 |
| ·Forms of Address | 第45-46页 |
| ·Introduction | 第46页 |
| ·Questioning | 第46-48页 |
| ·Making Response | 第48-50页 |
| ·Interrupting | 第50-51页 |
| ·Sentence Patterns | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第54-57页 |
| ·Summary of the Thesis | 第54-55页 |
| ·Significance | 第55-56页 |
| ·Limitations | 第56页 |
| ·Prospects for Further Study | 第56-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-59页 |
| Appendix I The Titles of Selected Episodes of Tell It Like It Is | 第59-60页 |
| Appendix II The Titles of Selected Episodes of Dialogue | 第60-61页 |
| Appendix III The Titles of Selected Episodes of Meet with Lu Yu for Your Stories | 第61-62页 |
| 读硕期间发表的论文目录 | 第62-63页 |
