| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abbreviations | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·Preview | 第13-15页 |
| ·Rationale of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Methodology | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two Language as Action: An Overview | 第21-50页 |
| ·Anthropological and social approaches to language as action | 第21-25页 |
| ·Philosophical approaches to language as action: Pre-Austinian views | 第25-31页 |
| ·Language as action in traditional philosophy | 第26-29页 |
| ·The linguistic turn | 第29-31页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory: Linguistic study of language as action | 第31-45页 |
| ·Austin’s initiation of SAT | 第31-34页 |
| ·Development of SAT in the Searlean tradition | 第34-45页 |
| ·The locutionary-illocutionary distinction | 第35-36页 |
| ·Taxonomies of illocutionary acts | 第36-45页 |
| ·Inviting as an act of commissive directive | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| Notes to Chapter Two | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Three Insincere Invitations in Chinese: A Pragmatic Analysis | 第50-82页 |
| ·Introduction | 第50-51页 |
| ·Methodology | 第51-54页 |
| ·Participants | 第51页 |
| ·Data collection | 第51-54页 |
| ·Analysis of the pragmatic features of IICs | 第54-74页 |
| ·Inviters’communication strategies and invitees’comprehension strategies | 第74-80页 |
| ·Summary | 第80-82页 |
| Chapter Four The Pragmatic Features of Insincere Invitations and the Felicity Conditions | 第82-93页 |
| ·Introduction | 第82-84页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Features and the Propositional Content Condition | 第84-87页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Features and the Preparatory Condition | 第87-90页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Features and the Sincerity Condition | 第90-91页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Features and the Essential Condition | 第91页 |
| ·Summary | 第91-93页 |
| Chapter Five Insincere Invitations as Pretence in Communication | 第93-122页 |
| ·Introduction | 第93-94页 |
| ·Psychological Studies of Pretence | 第94-95页 |
| ·Philosophical Studies of Pretence | 第95-97页 |
| ·Two Types of Pretence: Deceptive Pretence and Non-deceptive Pretence | 第97-118页 |
| ·Deceptive Pretence | 第100-106页 |
| ·Lying as deceptive pretence | 第100-104页 |
| ·Insincere invitations as deceptive pretence | 第104-106页 |
| ·Non-deceptive Pretence | 第106-118页 |
| ·Figurative language as non-deceptive pretence | 第106-111页 |
| ·Wit as non-deceptive pretence | 第111-114页 |
| ·Quotation and fiction as non-deceptive pretence | 第114-115页 |
| ·Insincere invitations as non-deceptive pretence | 第115-118页 |
| ·Summary | 第118-119页 |
| Notes to Chapter Five | 第119-122页 |
| Chapter Six Conditions and Intentions in Speech Acts：Felicity Conditions Revisited | 第122-147页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions for Language as Action | 第122-128页 |
| ·Critiques of Searle’s Felicity Conditions | 第128-137页 |
| ·Sincerity in communication | 第137-140页 |
| ·Felicity conditions for serious uses of language | 第137-139页 |
| ·Success conditions for serious and non-serious uses of language | 第139-140页 |
| ·Felicity conditions revisited | 第140-143页 |
| ·Revision of the prepositional content condition | 第141页 |
| ·Revision of the preparatory condition | 第141-142页 |
| ·Revision of the sincerity condition | 第142页 |
| ·Revision of the essential condition | 第142-143页 |
| ·Summary | 第143-145页 |
| Notes to Chapter Six | 第145-147页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第147-152页 |
| ·Major findings | 第147-149页 |
| ·Implications | 第149-150页 |
| ·Limitations | 第150页 |
| ·Directions for further study | 第150-152页 |
| Bibliography | 第152-169页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第169-171页 |
| 在学期间公开发表论文及著作情况 | 第171页 |
