| Abstract (English) | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第10-11页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-24页 |
| 1．1 Introduction | 第16页 |
| 1．2 Rationale of the present study | 第16-19页 |
| 1．3 Objectives and research questions of the present study | 第19页 |
| 1．4 Overinformative response: target of the present study | 第19-21页 |
| 1．5 Notes on data and methodology | 第21-22页 |
| 1．6 An overview of the thesis | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of Related Studies | 第24-36页 |
| 2． 1 Previous studies on responses in courtroom setting | 第24-30页 |
| 2．1．1 The rhetorical approach | 第24-25页 |
| 2．1．2 The anthropological approach | 第25-26页 |
| 2．1．3 The sociolinguistic approach | 第26-27页 |
| 2．1．4 The conversational analysis approach | 第27-28页 |
| 2．1．5 The pragmatic approach | 第28-30页 |
| 2．2 Previous studies on overinformativeness | 第30-34页 |
| 2．2．1 The discourse or conversational analysis approach | 第31-32页 |
| 2．2．2 The pragmatic approach | 第32-34页 |
| 2．3 Comments on the previous studies | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第36-52页 |
| 3．1 Introduction | 第36页 |
| 3．2 Theoretical background to the present study | 第36-43页 |
| 3．2．1 Grice's theory of implicature | 第36-38页 |
| 3．2．2 Neo-Gricean Theory | 第38-39页 |
| 3．2．3 Adaptation Theory | 第39-43页 |
| 3．2．3．1 Pragmatics as a functional perspective on language use | 第39-40页 |
| 3．2．3．2 Adaptation Theory | 第40-43页 |
| 3．3 A general picture of overinformative responding in courtroom setting | 第43-46页 |
| 3．3．1 The physical setting of the courtroom | 第43-44页 |
| 3．3．2 Courtroom interaction | 第44-45页 |
| 3．3．3 Overinformative responding as realization of adaptation | 第45-46页 |
| 3．4 Description of the conceptual framework | 第46-50页 |
| 3．4．1 Initiating acts | 第46-47页 |
| 3．4．2 Communicative needs | 第47页 |
| 3．4．3 Contextual correlates | 第47-49页 |
| 3．4．4 Summary | 第49-50页 |
| 3．5 Summary: an adaptation model for analyzing overinformative responding in Chinese courtroom setting | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Four The Variability of Overinformative Responses | 第52-72页 |
| 4．1 Introduction | 第52页 |
| 4．2 The notion of variability | 第52-53页 |
| 4．3 Major dimensions of overinformative responses | 第53-70页 |
| 4．3．1 Prepositional content | 第53-64页 |
| 4．3．1．1 A head act + grounding act(s) | 第55-57页 |
| 4．3．1．2 A head act + expanding act(s) | 第57-58页 |
| 4．3．1．3 A head act + attitude-expressing act(s) | 第58-60页 |
| 4．3．1．4 Ahead act + defending act(s) | 第60-62页 |
| 4．3．1．5 A head act + self-repairing act(s) | 第62-64页 |
| 4．3．2 Discourse property | 第64-69页 |
| 4．3．2．1 Explicit overinformative response | 第64-65页 |
| 4．3．2．2 Implicit overinformative response | 第65-69页 |
| 4．3．3 Information Quantity | 第69-70页 |
| 4．4 Summary | 第70-72页 |
| Chapter Five The Negotiability of Overinformative Responses | 第72-86页 |
| 5．1 Introduction | 第72页 |
| 5．2 The notion of negotiability | 第72-73页 |
| 5．3 Contextual dependence of overinformative responses | 第73-85页 |
| 5．3．1 The physical world to which overinformative responses adapt | 第73-74页 |
| 5．3．2 The social world to which overinformative responses adapt | 第74-77页 |
| 5．3．3 The mental world to which overinformative responses adapt | 第77-85页 |
| 5．3．3．1 The responder's mental world | 第77-82页 |
| 5．3．3．1．1 Making his statement consistent and credible | 第78-79页 |
| 5．3．3．1．2 Presenting the fact beneficial to him or his side | 第79-80页 |
| 5．3．3．1．3 Demonstrating a high degree of cooperativeness | 第80-81页 |
| 5．3．3．1．4 Opposing the initiator's damaging versions | 第81-82页 |
| 5．3．3．2 The responder's assumption of audience's mental world | 第82-85页 |
| 5．4 Summary | 第85-86页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第86-91页 |
| 6．1 Introduction | 第86页 |
| 6．2 Summary of findings | 第86-88页 |
| 6．3 Implications | 第88-89页 |
| 6．4 Limitations | 第89-90页 |
| 6．5 Suggestions for further research | 第90-91页 |
| Bibliography | 第91-94页 |
