| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Research Orientation | 第11页 |
| ·Research Rationale | 第11-13页 |
| ·Research Question | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Organization of the Dissertation | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 2 The Study of Pronouns in Linguistics | 第15-27页 |
| ·Previous Linguistic Studies on Pronouns | 第15-23页 |
| ·Definitions of Pronouns | 第15-16页 |
| ·Classification of Pronouns | 第16-17页 |
| ·Function of Personal Pronouns | 第17-23页 |
| ·Present Studies on Pronouns | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter 3 The Study of Pronouns in Conversation | 第27-37页 |
| ·Conversational Principle | 第27-32页 |
| ·Grice's Cooperative Principle | 第27-29页 |
| ·Levinson's Development | 第29-31页 |
| ·Y. Huang's Improvement | 第31-32页 |
| ·Politeness Principle | 第32-34页 |
| ·Notion of Face and Politeness | 第32-34页 |
| ·Type of Politeness | 第34页 |
| ·The Choice of Pronouns to Realize Politeness | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Effects of Violate Conversational Principle | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter 4 A Study of Pronouns in Chinese Conversation | 第37-51页 |
| ·Theoretical Frameworks | 第37-44页 |
| ·CRP Model | 第37-39页 |
| ·Mental Distance | 第39-41页 |
| ·Territory of Information | 第41-44页 |
| ·The Empirical Study on Maintaining Self-face by Pronoun-shift | 第44-51页 |
| ·Change First Person Pronoun to Maintain Self-face | 第44-47页 |
| ·Change Second Person Pronoun to Maintain Self-face | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions, Implications and Limitations | 第51-55页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第51-52页 |
| ·Implications | 第52-53页 |
| ·Limitations | 第53页 |
| ·Suggestions to Further Research | 第53-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-59页 |
| Papers published | 第59页 |
