| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·Methodology | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-33页 |
| ·The Study of Speech Act Theory | 第16-22页 |
| ·The Initiation of Speech Act Theory | 第16-20页 |
| ·Origin of Speech Act | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Crudest Form of Speech Act Theory | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Systematization of Speech Act Theory | 第20-22页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Classification of Illocutionary Acts | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Study of Indirect Speech Acts | 第22-33页 |
| ·Indirectness of Language | 第22-24页 |
| ·Notion of Indirect Speech Act | 第24-25页 |
| ·Idiom Theory | 第25-28页 |
| ·Positive Points | 第26页 |
| ·Crucial Deficiencies | 第26-28页 |
| ·Inference Theory | 第28-33页 |
| ·Searle's Classical Analysis of Indirect Speech Acts | 第28-30页 |
| ·Problems of Traditional Inference Theory | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Three Traditional Discussion of Request | 第33-41页 |
| ·Aspects of Request | 第33-35页 |
| ·Situational Variables | 第35-36页 |
| ·Illocutionary Aspects of Requests | 第36-37页 |
| ·Traditional Categorization of Request | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Four Cognitive Foundations of Indirect Request | 第41-52页 |
| ·Cognitive Pragmatics | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Interactive Character of Speech Acts and Cognition | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Concept of Categorization | 第44-47页 |
| ·The Importance of Categorization | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Classical View | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Prototype Effect | 第47-52页 |
| ·Rosch's Focal Color Experiment | 第47-49页 |
| ·Graded Centrality | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Representation of Conceptual Categories | 第50页 |
| ·Significance of the Theory | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Five Cognitive Analysis of Indirect Request as a Category | 第52-67页 |
| ·Cognitive Interpretation of Indirect Request | 第52-56页 |
| ·Cognitive Attributes | 第52-55页 |
| ·Conceptual Categorization | 第55-56页 |
| ·Inference Strategies | 第56-67页 |
| ·Pragmatic Failure in the Context of Indirect Request | 第56-57页 |
| ·Degrees of Decoding Speaker's Illocutionary Force | 第57-67页 |
| ·Speech Act Metonymy | 第57-59页 |
| ·Speech Act Scenario | 第59-61页 |
| ·Metonymic Link Force and Metonymic Reasoning | 第61-67页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第67-71页 |
| ·Contribution and Application | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第68-71页 |
| References | 第71-75页 |
