| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 内容提要 | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Theoretical Framework of Contrastive Study of Requests in English and Chinese | 第11-31页 |
| ·PolitenessTheories | 第11-24页 |
| ·The social-norm view | 第11-13页 |
| ·Gu Yueguo’s Politeness Principle | 第12-13页 |
| ·The conversational-maxim view | 第13-16页 |
| ·Lakoff’s View of Politeness | 第14页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principle | 第14-16页 |
| ·The face-saving view | 第16-24页 |
| ·Goffman and his face-work theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·Brown & Levinson’s face-saving theory of politeness | 第17-21页 |
| ·‘Face’revisited and renewed in Chinese by L.R. Mao | 第21-24页 |
| ·The conversational-contract view | 第24页 |
| ·Request Features and Request Strategies | 第24-30页 |
| ·Request segments | 第25-26页 |
| ·Request strategies | 第26-28页 |
| ·Request perspectives | 第28-29页 |
| ·Internal modifications of requests (downgraders and upgraders) | 第29-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Two Research Design | 第31-35页 |
| ·The aim of the research | 第31页 |
| ·Instrument | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Discourse Completion Test | 第31-32页 |
| ·The modified DCT for the present study | 第32-34页 |
| ·Procedures and subjects | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Analysis and Discussion of the Results | 第35-56页 |
| ·Request forms in English and Chinese | 第35-43页 |
| ·Similarities | 第37-38页 |
| ·Differences | 第38-42页 |
| ·Comment | 第42-43页 |
| ·Address forms (alerters) | 第43-50页 |
| ·A more frequent use of kinship terms to non-kins in Chinese | 第45-46页 |
| ·Wider use of professional and official titles in Chinese request | 第46-47页 |
| ·Differences of employment of first name in Chinese and English | 第47-49页 |
| ·Comment | 第49-50页 |
| ·“Please”and “请”as typical request markers | 第50-56页 |
| ·Syntactic aspects of “please”and “请” | 第50-52页 |
| ·Pragmatic aspects of “please”and “请” | 第52-55页 |
| ·Comment | 第55-56页 |
| Chapter Four Implications and Conclusion | 第56-62页 |
| ·Some general considerations of foreign language learning and teaching | 第56-58页 |
| ·Some practical implications and suggestions | 第58-60页 |
| ·Concluding remarks | 第60-62页 |
| Appendix Questionaire | 第62-66页 |
| References | 第66-68页 |
