| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Relevant research at home and abroad | 第9-10页 |
| ·Purpose and significance of this thesis | 第10页 |
| ·Key issues and research method | 第10-11页 |
| ·Structure of the dissertation | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature review | 第13-18页 |
| ·On Relevance Theory | 第13-16页 |
| ·Relevance:Contextual effect and processing effort | 第14-15页 |
| ·Degree of Relevance:Maximal relevance and optimal relevance | 第15-16页 |
| ·On figure of speech | 第16-17页 |
| ·Relationship between rhetoric and debate | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter 3 On debate and main rhetoric in English Debating Competition | 第18-32页 |
| ·Definition of Debate | 第18-19页 |
| ·Classification of Debate | 第19页 |
| ·On "FLTRP Cup" National English Debating Competition | 第19-21页 |
| ·Main figures of speech in English Debating Competition | 第21-32页 |
| ·Rhetoric question and Question and answer | 第22-25页 |
| ·Analogy | 第25-28页 |
| ·Parallelism | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter 4 Relevance between figures of speech and their effect in English debatecompetition | 第32-43页 |
| ·Relevance degree of debate language | 第32-34页 |
| ·Comparisons of relevance degree between main figures of speech | 第34-35页 |
| ·Relevance of main figures of speech | 第35-41页 |
| ·Rhetoric question and Question and answer | 第36-38页 |
| ·Analogy | 第38-40页 |
| ·Parallelism | 第40-41页 |
| ·Effect caused by different figures of speech | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第43-46页 |
| ·Summary of the research | 第43-44页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第44-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-49页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第49页 |
