| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Significance of This Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·Objectives of the Research | 第11页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-21页 |
| ·Related Theoretical Background | 第12-15页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principle | 第12-13页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Face Theory | 第13-14页 |
| ·Gu Yueguo's Five Politeness Principle | 第14-15页 |
| ·Studies of the Speech Act of Compliments | 第15-21页 |
| ·Previous Study on Compliment Response and Adjacency Pairs | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Stylistic Features of Chinese Compliment Response | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Leech's Grand Strategy of Politeness | 第21-28页 |
| ·Leech's Explanations to Politeness | 第21-24页 |
| ·Principle of Politeness | 第22页 |
| ·Two kinds of Politeness Scale | 第22-23页 |
| ·Illocutionary Goals and Social Goals | 第23页 |
| ·Rethinking the Maxims of Politeness in Principles of Pragmatics | 第23-24页 |
| ·Ways to Follow the GSP | 第24-28页 |
| ·From the Perspective of the Speaker | 第24-26页 |
| ·Place a Low Value on S's Qualities | 第24-25页 |
| ·Place a Low Value on S's Opinions | 第25页 |
| ·Place a Low Value on S's Feelings | 第25-26页 |
| ·From the Perspective of the Other | 第26-28页 |
| ·Place a High Value on O's Wants | 第26页 |
| ·Place a High Value on O's Qualities | 第26-27页 |
| ·Place a High Value on O's Opinions | 第27页 |
| ·Place a High Value on O's Feelings | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Four Data Collection and Analysis | 第28-50页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第28-30页 |
| ·Subject | 第28-29页 |
| ·Instruments | 第29-30页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第30-47页 |
| ·Frequency of Adjectives Used by Males and Females | 第30-31页 |
| ·Frequency of Verbs Used by Males and Females | 第31-32页 |
| ·Frequency of Syntactic Patterns Used by Males and Females | 第32-33页 |
| ·Frequency of Different Topics | 第33-34页 |
| ·Reasons for Compliment | 第34-35页 |
| ·Frequency of Chinese College Students' Compliment Responses | 第35-47页 |
| ·Response Frequencies for English Majors | 第37-40页 |
| ·Response Frequencies of Students from Department of Telecommunication | 第40-42页 |
| ·Response Strategies of the Students from Department of Accounting | 第42-47页 |
| ·The Results of the Data Analysis from GSP | 第47-50页 |
| Ⅴ Factors Causing the Difference Between East and West | 第50-54页 |
| ·Different Value Systems | 第50-51页 |
| ·Different Concepts of Face | 第51页 |
| ·Different Styles of Communication | 第51-52页 |
| ·GSP and East-west Difference | 第52-54页 |
| Ⅵ Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第54-55页 |
| ·Implications and Limitations | 第55-56页 |
| Bibilography | 第56-59页 |
| Appendix | 第59-62页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第62页 |
