| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 2 A brief account of Relevance Theory (RT) | 第11-22页 |
| ·Development of RT | 第11-15页 |
| ·Main assumptions of RT | 第15-17页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential communication | 第17-20页 |
| ·Utterance Interpretation Guided by the Principle of Relevance | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter3 A Brief Account of Politeness | 第22-34页 |
| ·Politeness | 第22-24页 |
| ·Perspectives on politeness | 第24-34页 |
| ·The social-norm view | 第24-25页 |
| ·The conversational-maxim view | 第25-29页 |
| ·Grice and his Cooperative Principle | 第25-26页 |
| ·Lakoff's Theory of Politeness | 第26-27页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Theory | 第27-29页 |
| ·The face-saving view | 第29-31页 |
| ·The conversational-contract view | 第31-32页 |
| ·The pragmatic scales view | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Study of polite speech acts under the framework of RT | 第34-66页 |
| ·Relevance and communication | 第34-35页 |
| ·Context and optimal relevance | 第35-39页 |
| ·Politeness and RT | 第39-44页 |
| ·Politeness and RT | 第39-41页 |
| ·The status of politeness within RT | 第41-43页 |
| ·How politeness fits into RT | 第43-44页 |
| ·Study of politeness under the framework of RT | 第44-66页 |
| ·Understanding politeness through recognizing the speaker's intention of being polite | 第46-52页 |
| ·Conveying politeness through arousing the hearer's awareness of the intention of being polite | 第52-57页 |
| ·Study of non-English politeness under the framework of RT | 第57-62页 |
| ·Strategies for being polite based on RT | 第62-66页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·Conclusion of the study | 第66-68页 |
| ·Limitation of the study | 第68-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-74页 |
