| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Feasibility of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Studies on Politeness | 第15-28页 |
| ·Definitions of Politeness | 第15-16页 |
| ·Various Views on Politeness | 第16-25页 |
| ·The Conversational-maxim View | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Face-saving View | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Social-norm View | 第22页 |
| ·The Conversational-contract View | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Cognitive View | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Adaptation View | 第25页 |
| ·Comments on Previous Studies | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Preliminaries | 第28-37页 |
| ·Exposition of Adaptation-relevance Model | 第28-33页 |
| ·Context in Adaptation-relevance Model | 第33-36页 |
| ·Perspective of the Present Study | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four Revisiting Verbal Politeness | 第37-50页 |
| ·Redefining Verbal Politeness | 第37-39页 |
| ·Pragmatic Features of Verbal Politeness | 第39-48页 |
| ·Subjectivity | 第39-45页 |
| ·Relativity | 第45-47页 |
| ·Fluidity | 第47-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five Working Process of Verbal Politeness | 第50-69页 |
| ·Contextual Dynamism in Verbal Politeness | 第50-55页 |
| ·Inter-adaptation between Utterances and Contextual Correlates in Verbal Politeness | 第55-60页 |
| ·Dynamic Generation of Politeness Effect | 第60-67页 |
| ·Anticipated Politeness versus Inferred Politeness | 第61-62页 |
| ·Dynamic Generation of Anticipated Politeness | 第62-63页 |
| ·Dynamic Generation of Inferred Politeness | 第63-65页 |
| ·Alternate Generation of Anticipated and Inferred Politeness in Long-stretch Discourses | 第65-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第69-74页 |
| ·Findings and Significance | 第69-72页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies | 第72-74页 |
| References | 第74-77页 |
