| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4-10页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-16页 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 第16-23页 |
| 1．1 Content and organization | 第16-18页 |
| 1．2 Data and methodology | 第18-21页 |
| 1．3 Procedure for transcriptions and symbols | 第21-23页 |
| 2 POLITENESS：SETTING THE SCENE | 第23-34页 |
| 2．1 The common basis：the Grice-Goffman paradigm | 第23页 |
| 2．2 Four Anglo-American views of politeness | 第23-31页 |
| 2．2．1 ”Social-norm”view | 第24页 |
| 2．2．2 ”Conversational-maxim”view | 第24-28页 |
| Lakoff's rules of politeness | 第24-26页 |
| Leech's maxims of politeness | 第26-28页 |
| 2．2．3 ”Face-saving”view | 第28-30页 |
| Brown & Levinson's paradigm of politeness | 第28-30页 |
| 2．2．4 ”Conversational-contract”view | 第30-31页 |
| Fraser's approach to politeness | 第30-31页 |
| 2．3 Researches into politeness by Chinese scholars | 第31-34页 |
| 2．3．1 Gu's model of modern Chinese politeness | 第32-34页 |
| 3 POLITENESS AND FACE：CONCEPTS ACROSS CULTURES | 第34-54页 |
| 3．1 English politeness vs Chinese limao | 第34-43页 |
| 3．1．1 Second-order politeness: a technical notion | 第34-37页 |
| 3．1．2 First-order politeness: a commonsense term | 第37-43页 |
| 3．2 English face vs Chinese lian and mianzi | 第43-52页 |
| 3．2．1 Face in theoretical studies and folk uses | 第43-47页 |
| 3．2．2 Lian/mianzi in theoretical studies and folk uses | 第47-52页 |
| 3．3 Concluding remarks | 第52-54页 |
| 4 ADDRESS IN AMERICAN AND CHINESE CULTURES | 第54-85页 |
| 4．1 Address behavior in American English | 第54-62页 |
| 4．1．1 Two major patterns: FN and TLN | 第54-56页 |
| 4．1．2 LN alone and Title alone | 第56-58页 |
| 4．1．3 Multiple names and diminutives | 第58-60页 |
| 4．1．4 No naming: zero form of address | 第60页 |
| 4．1．5 Kinship terms in address | 第60-62页 |
| 4．2 Address behavior in Chinese | 第62-80页 |
| 4．2．1 Titles as address forms | 第62-69页 |
| 4．2．2 Names as address forms | 第69-73页 |
| 4．2．3 No-naming: zero form of address | 第73-75页 |
| 4．2．4 Kinship terms as address forms | 第75-80页 |
| 4．3 Concluding remarks | 第80-85页 |
| 5 COMPLIMENTS IN AMERICAN AND CHINESE CULTURES | 第85-110页 |
| 5．1 Topics for compliments in both languages | 第85-92页 |
| 5．1．1 Common topics of compliments | 第85-89页 |
| 5．1．2 Gender-based tendency in compliment topics | 第89-91页 |
| 5．1．3 Social dimensions and compliment topics | 第91-92页 |
| 5．2 Patterns of compliments in both languages | 第92-100页 |
| 5．2．1 Major patterns of American compliments | 第93-97页 |
| Common syntactic patterns | 第93-94页 |
| Gender-related differences | 第94-96页 |
| Lexical patterns of compliments | 第96-97页 |
| 5．2．2 Major patterns of Chinese compliments | 第97-100页 |
| Common syntactic patterns | 第97-98页 |
| Common lexical patterns | 第98-99页 |
| Gender-related differences | 第99-100页 |
| 5．3 Distribution of compliments between women and men | 第100-103页 |
| 5．3．1 Distribution of American compliments | 第100-101页 |
| 5．3．2 Distribution of Chinese compliments | 第101-102页 |
| 5．3．3 An explanation in social context | 第102-103页 |
| 5．4 Compliment responses | 第103-110页 |
| 5．4．1 How do Americans respond to compliments? | 第103-105页 |
| 5．4．2 How do Chinese respond to compliments? | 第105-108页 |
| 5．4．3 Concluding remarks | 第108-110页 |
| 6 SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR FLT IN CHINA | 第110-121页 |
| 6．1 Some general considerations of FLT | 第110-111页 |
| 6．2 Some tentative suggestions and implications | 第111-116页 |
| 6．3 Final concluding remarks | 第116-121页 |
| APPENDIXⅠ Plays Used as Data | 第121-123页 |
| APPENDIXⅡ Questionnaires | 第123-127页 |
| REFERENCES | 第127-130页 |
