| Acknowledgement | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| List of Tables | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Research background | 第12-14页 |
| ·The purpose of the research | 第14页 |
| ·Data collection | 第14-15页 |
| ·The framework of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-22页 |
| ·Introduction and review of Dreams from My Father | 第17-19页 |
| ·Cultural stereotype | 第19-20页 |
| ·Cultural identity in literature | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundation | 第22-33页 |
| ·Discourse approach: Discourse | 第22-24页 |
| ·Culture and Discourse System | 第24-29页 |
| ·Ideology | 第24-25页 |
| ·Face system | 第25-26页 |
| ·Forms of discourse | 第26-27页 |
| ·Socialization | 第27-29页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·Speech acts as illocutionary acts | 第29-31页 |
| ·Indirect speech acts as indirect illocutionary acts | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summaries | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter 4 A Discourse-Pragmatic Interpretations of Dreams from My Father | 第33-56页 |
| ·Micro-cultural identities in the discourse | 第33-40页 |
| ·The Kenyans’cultural identity | 第33-37页 |
| ·The Afro-Americans’cultural identity | 第37-40页 |
| ·Macro-cultural identity under cross-cultural context | 第40-45页 |
| ·Comparisons of different cultural identities | 第45-47页 |
| ·Dynamics of cultural identity | 第47-56页 |
| ·Obama’s cultural identity | 第47-50页 |
| ·The factors involved in this process | 第50-52页 |
| ·The interaction of different cultural identities | 第52-54页 |
| ·The cultural identity under multi-cultural context | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| ·Major findings | 第56-58页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第58页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study | 第58-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-62页 |
| Papers Published in Three Years’Study | 第62页 |
