| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| 1.1 Motive of This Research | 第10-13页 |
| 1.2 Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| 2. Literature and Achievements—On Women’s Language | 第15-33页 |
| 2.1 Woman’s Language and Critic Theories | 第17-21页 |
| 2.1.1 From Structuralism to Post-modernism | 第17-20页 |
| 2.1.2 Competition for the Floor in Eyes of Feminists | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2 Woman’s Language and Linguistics | 第21-27页 |
| 2.2.1 Sociolinguistic Studies on Competition for the Floor | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2.2 Pragmatic Studies on Competition for the Floor | 第25-27页 |
| 2.3 Woman’s Language and Literature | 第27-33页 |
| 2.3.1 Feminism in Literature | 第28-30页 |
| 2.3.2 Literary Concerns on Competition for the Floor | 第30-33页 |
| 3. Data Analysis on the Floor in Literary Works | 第33-54页 |
| 3.1 Discourse Analysis on Competition for the Floor | 第33-36页 |
| 3.2 A Case Study | 第36-43页 |
| 3.3 Data Analysis Based on Literary Discourse | 第43-54页 |
| 3.3.1 Data of the Fictional Characters’Turn-takings | 第43-48页 |
| 3.3.2 Competition for the Floor between Male and Female Characters.. | 第48-49页 |
| 3.3.3 Competition for the Floor between Male and Female Writers | 第49-52页 |
| 3.3.4 Propositions Drawn from the Data Analysis | 第52-54页 |
| 4. Power | 第54-63页 |
| 4.1 Sociolinguistic Interpretations of Power | 第54-55页 |
| 4.2 The Foucaultian Interpretation of Power | 第55-59页 |
| 4.3 Linguistic Relativism and Power | 第59-63页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Appendix | 第65-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-71页 |
| 附件 | 第71页 |
