| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| List of Figuers | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-36页 |
| ·Review of Related Theories | 第16-23页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principle | 第16-18页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Face Theory | 第18-20页 |
| ·Verschueren's Adaptation Theory | 第20-22页 |
| ·Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory | 第22-23页 |
| ·Review of Previous Studies | 第23-32页 |
| ·Definition of Impoliteness | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Most Appropriate Terminology | 第23-24页 |
| ·Definition of Impoliteness | 第24-25页 |
| ·Classification of Impoliteness | 第25-26页 |
| ·Factors Triggering Impoliteness | 第26-27页 |
| ·Culpeper's View | 第26页 |
| ·Jay's View | 第26-27页 |
| ·Impoliteness Strategies | 第27-30页 |
| ·Frameworks of Impoliteness Strategies | 第27-30页 |
| ·Employment of Impoliteness Strategies in Communication | 第30页 |
| ·Responses to Impoliteness | 第30-32页 |
| ·No Responding | 第31页 |
| ·Responding:accepting or countering | 第31-32页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundations of the Present Study | 第32-35页 |
| ·Yang Ping's Relevance-adaptation Model | 第32-33页 |
| ·Ran Yongping's Adaptation-relevance Model | 第33-35页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第35-36页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第36-51页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第36页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第36-41页 |
| ·Definition of Verbal Impoliteness Reconsidered | 第37-39页 |
| ·Classification of Verbal Impoliteness Based on the Present Definition | 第39-40页 |
| ·Selection of the Data | 第40-41页 |
| ·Adaptation-relevance Model Developed in This Study | 第41-49页 |
| ·Inadequacies of Yang's and Ran's Models | 第41-42页 |
| ·An Adapted Adaptation-relevance Model Based on Ran's Model | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Main Claims of the Present Model | 第44-49页 |
| ·Dynamics of Cognitive Contextual Assumption | 第45-46页 |
| ·Inter-adaptability between Utterances and Cognitive Contextual Assumption | 第46-47页 |
| ·Guidance of Optimal Relevance Presumption in Communication | 第47-48页 |
| ·Involvement of Strategy-choosing in Communication | 第48-49页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis of Verbal Impoliteness in Thunderstorm | 第51-83页 |
| ·Analysis of Triggering of Verbal Impoliteness under the AdaptedAdaptation-relevance Model | 第53-60页 |
| ·Analysis of Triggering of Speaker-intended Hearer-perceived VerbalImpoliteness | 第53-56页 |
| ·Analysis of Triggering of Speaker-unintended Hearer-perceived VerbalImpoliteness | 第56-60页 |
| ·Analysis of Processing of Verbal Impoliteness under the AdaptedAdaptation-relevance Model | 第60-71页 |
| ·Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies in Thunderstorm | 第61-67页 |
| ·Impoliteness Strategies in Thunderstorm | 第61-66页 |
| ·Employment of Impoliteness Strategies in Thunderstorm | 第66-67页 |
| ·Responses of Impoliteness-perceiver | 第67-71页 |
| ·The Option of Not Responding | 第67-68页 |
| ·The Option of Responding | 第68-71页 |
| ·Analysis of Termination of Verbal Impoliteness under the AdaptedAdaptation-relevance Model | 第71-80页 |
| ·Submission to Opponent | 第71-72页 |
| ·Dominant Third Party Intervention | 第72-74页 |
| ·Compromise | 第74-76页 |
| ·Stand-off | 第76-77页 |
| ·Withdrawal | 第77-79页 |
| ·Settlement with Further Hidden Conflict | 第79-80页 |
| ·Discussion of Verbal Impoliteness in Thunderstorm | 第80-82页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第82-83页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第83-86页 |
| ·Findings of the Present Study | 第83-84页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions for Later Studies | 第84-86页 |
| References | 第86-89页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第89-90页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第90页 |
