| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-7页 |
| List of Figures and Table | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·The Object of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Significance of the Research | 第13页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review of the Studies on Evasive Answers | 第15-21页 |
| ·The Two Approaches | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Study of Evasive Answers Abroad | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Current Study of Evasive Answers in China | 第19页 |
| ·Summary | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Evasive Answers and Political Interview | 第21-38页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·Evasive Answers | 第21-25页 |
| ·Definitions of Evasive Answers | 第21-22页 |
| ·A Working Definition of Evasive Answers | 第22-25页 |
| ·Classifications of Evasive Answers | 第25-32页 |
| ·The Functionalist Classification | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Semantic Classification | 第26-28页 |
| ·Other Classification of Evasive Answers | 第28-32页 |
| ·Political Interview | 第32-37页 |
| ·Introduction | 第32页 |
| ·Features of Political Interview | 第32-35页 |
| ·Types of Questioning | 第35-37页 |
| ·Formalistic and Functionalistic Classification of Questioning | 第35-36页 |
| ·Classification by Questioning Structure | 第36页 |
| ·Classification by Questioning Context | 第36-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter Four Relevance Theory | 第38-49页 |
| ·Introduction | 第38页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle | 第38-41页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第41-47页 |
| ·Principles of Relevance | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Optimal Relevance | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Ostensive Communication | 第43-45页 |
| ·Cognitive Environments and Mutually Manifest | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Differences between Relevance Theory and Grice's Cooperative Principle | 第47-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Five Evasive Answers in Political Interviews | 第49-66页 |
| ·Introduction | 第49页 |
| ·The Impetus | 第49-53页 |
| ·The Perspective of the Speaker | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Perspective of Questions | 第51-53页 |
| ·Evasive Strategies Used in Political Interview | 第53-58页 |
| ·Extending the Cognitive Context | 第53-54页 |
| ·Reducing the Cognitive Context | 第54-55页 |
| ·Changing the Cognitive Context | 第55-58页 |
| ·The Statistics of Strategies of Evasive Answers | 第58页 |
| ·Functions of Evasive Answers | 第58-60页 |
| ·Keeping Information | 第58-59页 |
| ·Establishing the Harmonious Relationship/Avoiding the Conflict | 第59-60页 |
| ·A Case Study | 第60-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·A Summary of the Study | 第66-67页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第67页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第67-68页 |
| ·Suggestions of Future Study | 第68-69页 |
| Sources of Data | 第69-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-73页 |
