| Abstract in English | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-6页 |
| Contents | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第9-18页 |
| ·Linguistic gender research: a brief history | 第9-10页 |
| ·Researches on the women's speech and their social positions | 第10-12页 |
| ·Researches on professional women's directive strategies | 第12-14页 |
| ·Studies of gender and language in China | 第14-15页 |
| ·Objectives of this study | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Three The Conceptual Framework of the Present Study | 第18-23页 |
| Chapter Four Methodology | 第23-27页 |
| ·Directives as a type of speech acts | 第23-24页 |
| ·Data collection from TV dramas | 第24-25页 |
| ·Rationale for data collection | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第27-49页 |
| ·Characteristics of morphosyntactic structures | 第27-36页 |
| ·Supra-sentential analysis of directive strategies | 第36-45页 |
| ·Using polite language to seek the communicative power | 第45-49页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第49-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-57页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第57页 |
