| Appendix | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12页 |
| ·The rational of the present study | 第12-14页 |
| ·Objectives of the present study | 第14页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第14-16页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-31页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17页 |
| ·Researches on conversation repair | 第17-20页 |
| ·SJS's contribution | 第17-20页 |
| ·Further development by other linguists | 第20页 |
| ·General review of the study of gender differences in language | 第20-24页 |
| ·Approaches to gender differences in language | 第24-28页 |
| ·The conversation analysis(CA) approach | 第24-25页 |
| ·The sociolinguistic approach | 第25-27页 |
| ·The dominance approach | 第26页 |
| ·The cultural difference approach | 第26-27页 |
| ·The pragmatic approach | 第27-28页 |
| ·Weak points of previous studies | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Three Description of the Conceptual Framework | 第31-35页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31页 |
| ·Face-threatening Acts and politeness strategies | 第31-32页 |
| ·Brown &Levinson's model and conversation repair | 第32-33页 |
| ·Politeness strategy and gender difference | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Gender Differences Reflected on the Organization of Conversation Repair | 第35-55页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35页 |
| ·Self-initiated self-repair | 第35-42页 |
| ·Placement of initiation for self-initiated self-repair | 第35-38页 |
| ·Gender differences reflected on placement of initiation | 第37-38页 |
| ·Initiating techniques for self-initiated self-repair | 第38-40页 |
| ·Non-lexical perturbations | 第38-39页 |
| ·Lexical items | 第39-40页 |
| ·Gender differences reflected on initiating techniques | 第40页 |
| ·Repair trajectories for self-initiated self-repair | 第40页 |
| ·Analysis of gender differences reflected on self-initiated self-repair | 第40-42页 |
| ·Other-initiated self-repair | 第42-50页 |
| ·Placement of initiation for other-initiated self-repair | 第42-43页 |
| ·Initiating techniques for other-initiated self-repair | 第43-48页 |
| ·Question words and partial repeat | 第43-45页 |
| ·Indirect other initiation techniques | 第45-47页 |
| ·Gender differences reflected on initiating techniques | 第47-48页 |
| ·Repair trajectories for other-initiated self-repair | 第48页 |
| ·Analysis of gender differences | 第48-50页 |
| ·Other-initiated other-repair | 第50-54页 |
| ·Placement of initiation for other-initiated other-repair | 第50-52页 |
| ·Cause of gender difference reflected on interruption | 第51-52页 |
| ·Other-initiation and other-repair next to the trouble source | 第52-53页 |
| ·Repair trajectory for other-initiated other-repair | 第53-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第55页 |
| ·Major findings | 第55-56页 |
| ·Limitations | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61-62页 |
| 个人简况及联系方式 | 第62-63页 |
| 发表文章目录 | 第63-64页 |
