| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Chinese abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents (English) | 第9-12页 |
| Table of Contents (Chinese) | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-21页 |
| ·The object of the present research | 第15-16页 |
| ·The rationale of the research | 第16-17页 |
| ·Problems with the existing studies | 第17页 |
| ·The objective of the study | 第17-19页 |
| ·The significance of the study | 第19页 |
| ·The theoretical significance | 第19页 |
| ·The applicable significance | 第19页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第19-20页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Relevant Literature | 第21-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·Terminological issue of answering | 第21-30页 |
| ·What is "questioning and answering"? | 第21-23页 |
| ·Types of questioning | 第23-26页 |
| ·Formalistic and functionalistic classification of questioning | 第23-24页 |
| ·Classification by questioning structure | 第24页 |
| ·Classification by the questioning context | 第24-25页 |
| ·Working questioning types in political interviews | 第25-26页 |
| ·Definitions of evasive answer in the existing studies | 第26-28页 |
| ·The classification of evasive answers | 第28-30页 |
| ·Approaches to evasive answers | 第30-37页 |
| ·The semantic approach | 第30-36页 |
| ·Changing the textual context of the question | 第31-33页 |
| ·Changing the focus of the question | 第33页 |
| ·Changing the focus and the textual context of the question | 第33-36页 |
| ·The functional approach | 第36-37页 |
| ·Working definition of evasive answer | 第37-41页 |
| ·Motivational dimension of evasion | 第37-38页 |
| ·Functional dimension of evasion | 第38-39页 |
| ·Dimension of the relation to questioning | 第39-40页 |
| ·Working definition of evasive answer | 第40-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Three Description of the Conceptual Framework | 第43-53页 |
| ·Introduction | 第43页 |
| ·A discussion of the Basis of the framework | 第43-50页 |
| ·Problems in the existing studies on.evasion | 第43-44页 |
| ·Studying evasive answer from a cognitive pragmatic perspective | 第44-50页 |
| ·Pragmatics in general | 第44-45页 |
| ·On Relevance Theory | 第45-50页 |
| ·A description of the framework | 第50-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Four Cognitive Pragmatic Analysis of Evasive Answer in the Political Interviews | 第53-58页 |
| ·Introduction | 第53页 |
| ·Evasion by reconstructing the cognitive context | 第53-56页 |
| ·Adding cognitive assumptions | 第53-54页 |
| ·Reducing cognitive assumptions | 第54-55页 |
| ·Changing cognitive assumptions | 第55-56页 |
| ·Evasion by taking advantage of the cognitive context | 第56-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| Chapter Five Evasive Strategies to Different Questions in the Political interview | 第58-64页 |
| ·Introduction | 第58页 |
| ·Evasive strategies to the informational question | 第58-61页 |
| ·Evasive strategies to the indicative question | 第61-62页 |
| ·Evasive strategies to the elicited question | 第62-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter Six Pragmatic Functions of Evasive Answers in Political interviews | 第64-66页 |
| ·Introduction | 第64页 |
| ·Withholding information | 第64页 |
| ·Avoiding conflict | 第64-65页 |
| ·Producing positive communicative effects | 第65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·Summary of the thesis | 第66-67页 |
| ·Major findings of the thesis | 第67页 |
| ·The limitations of the thesis | 第67-68页 |
| ·The suggestions for future studies | 第68-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-71页 |
| Appendix | 第71-72页 |
| 承诺书 | 第72页 |
