| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| ·What is Politeness | 第10-12页 |
| ·Background and Motivation in Writing This Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 A General Review of Politeness Research | 第14-25页 |
| ·Grice to Leech | 第14-19页 |
| ·Grice's Cooperative Principle | 第14-16页 |
| ·Lakoff's Explanation | 第16-17页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principle | 第17-19页 |
| ·Goffman to Brown and Levinson | 第19-22页 |
| ·Goffman's Concept of Face | 第19-20页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Face Theory | 第20-22页 |
| ·Gu and Mao | 第22-24页 |
| ·Gu's Politeness Maxims in Chinese Culture | 第22-23页 |
| ·Mao's View on Mianzi and Lian | 第23-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Culture-specific Politeness | 第25-35页 |
| ·Understanding Culture | 第25-26页 |
| ·Politeness Relativity | 第26-27页 |
| ·Differences in Politeness between English and Chinese Culture | 第27-35页 |
| ·Modesty versus Self-denigration | 第27-28页 |
| ·Direct Utterance versus Indirect Utterance | 第28-30页 |
| ·Privacy versus Attitudinal Warmth | 第30-31页 |
| ·Pro-individual versus Pro-group | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter 4 A Cognitive View of Politeness | 第35-59页 |
| ·RT---the Foundation of Cognitive Pragmatics | 第35-37页 |
| ·RT and the Comprehension of Utterances in Verbal Communication | 第37-47页 |
| ·Ostensive-Inferential Communication | 第37-41页 |
| ·Cognitive Context | 第41-44页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance | 第44-47页 |
| ·RT and Politeness in English and Chinese | 第47-59页 |
| ·The Possibility of Applying RT in Politeness Study | 第47-49页 |
| ·Cognitive Context and Cultural Factors in Politeness | 第49-52页 |
| ·A Case Study on Compliments in Chinese and English Culture | 第52-59页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| ·A Brief Summary of the Thesis | 第59-60页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第60页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第60-62页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第62-64页 |
