| Declaration | 第1-9页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第9-10页 |
| List of figures and tables | 第10-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Overview | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Scope of the study | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review and Theoretical Framework | 第17-30页 |
| ·Overview | 第17页 |
| ·Related studies of the present study | 第17-19页 |
| ·Theoretical framework of the present study | 第19-27页 |
| ·Speech act theory | 第20-22页 |
| ·The ethnography of communication | 第22-24页 |
| ·Generic structure potential | 第24-27页 |
| ·Theoretical framework for the present study | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第30-35页 |
| ·Overview | 第30页 |
| ·Research design | 第30-32页 |
| ·Data collection | 第32-33页 |
| ·Data treatment | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Explanation | 第35-46页 |
| ·Overview | 第35页 |
| ·Results of generic structure analysis | 第35-38页 |
| ·Results of the categorization of interviewer's questions and their distribution in the discourse | 第38-40页 |
| ·Presenting the distribution of different types of interviewer's questions across the discourse | 第39-40页 |
| ·Explaining the distribution of different types of questions | 第40页 |
| ·Results of the summary of interviewees' response strategies of different types of questions | 第40-42页 |
| ·Response strategies of ICQs | 第41页 |
| ·Response strategies of OSQs | 第41-42页 |
| ·Response strategies of CSQs | 第42页 |
| ·The SPEAKING grid of job interview | 第42-46页 |
| ·Communicative components of job interview---the SPEAKING grid | 第42-43页 |
| ·Explanation of the communicative components of job interview in the SPEAKING grid | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion | 第46-79页 |
| ·Overview | 第46页 |
| ·Distribution of different types of questions across generic structure components | 第46-48页 |
| ·The relationship between the functions of different types of questions and the functions of different generic structure components | 第48-54页 |
| ·Functions of three types of questions | 第48-50页 |
| ·Functions of various generic structure components | 第50-51页 |
| ·Relating the functions of different types of questions to the functions of different generic structure components | 第51-54页 |
| ·Response strategies to different types of questions | 第54-63页 |
| ·Response strategies of ICQs | 第54-61页 |
| ·Response strategies of CSQs | 第61页 |
| ·Response strategies of OSQs | 第61-63页 |
| ·Detailed examination of response strategies of OSQs in component IR | 第63-78页 |
| ·Analyzing the speech acts of the question | 第63-67页 |
| ·Analyzing the context of OSQs | 第64-67页 |
| ·Response strategies to the question | 第67-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-79页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第79-86页 |
| ·Overview | 第79页 |
| ·Summary of the study | 第79-82页 |
| ·Application | 第82-84页 |
| ·Promoting the interviewees' awareness of the generic structure of job interview | 第82-83页 |
| ·Promoting interviewees' ability to choose appropriate response strategies | 第83-84页 |
| ·Limitations | 第84-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-89页 |
| Appendix A | 第89页 |
