| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第7-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-17页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13页 |
| ·Significance and Objectiyes of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Scope of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-24页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Interaction and Communication | 第17-18页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis | 第18页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Conversational Analysis | 第18-21页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Pragmatics | 第21-23页 |
| ·Summary | 第23-24页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK-RELEVANCE THEORY | 第24-36页 |
| ·The Theoretical Origin | 第24-26页 |
| ·Ostensive-Inferential Communication | 第26-28页 |
| ·Ostension from the speaker | 第26-27页 |
| ·Non-demonstrative in ference by the hearer | 第27-28页 |
| ·Cognitive Environment and Mutual Manifestness | 第28-29页 |
| ·Dynamic Context | 第29-30页 |
| ·Relevance | 第30-36页 |
| ·The definition of relevance | 第30-31页 |
| ·Degree of relevance:contextual effect and processing effort | 第31-33页 |
| ·Two principles of relevance | 第33-35页 |
| ·The differences between optima relevance and maximal relevance | 第35-36页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR APPLIC ATION OF RELEVANC E THEORY TO THEUNDERSTANDING OF C ONVERSATIONS IN JOB INTERVIEWS | 第36-59页 |
| ·The Nature of Interviewer-Interviewee Interaction | 第36-46页 |
| ·The process of ostensive-inferential communication between interviewees and interviewers | 第36-43页 |
| ·Ostension from the interviewer | 第37-40页 |
| ·Inference by the interviewee | 第40-43页 |
| ·Understanding process of interviewees as a search for optimal relevance | 第43-46页 |
| ·Relevance Interpretation of Questioning in Job Interview | 第46-55页 |
| ·Relevance in questioning generation | 第47-51页 |
| ·Contextual assumptions of questioning | 第47-49页 |
| ·Topic relevance in questioning | 第49-50页 |
| ·Questioning mode relevance | 第50-51页 |
| ·Relevance In question understanding | 第51-55页 |
| ·Relevance--on the interviewee's part | 第52-53页 |
| ·Relevance--on the interviewer's part | 第53-55页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第55页 |
| ·Implications for Interviewers Under RT | 第55-59页 |
| ·Asking relevant questions | 第56页 |
| ·Asking ostensive questions | 第56-57页 |
| ·Asking questions that can help achieve mutual manifestness | 第57-58页 |
| ·Asking questions that can help seek out optimal relevance | 第58-59页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第59-61页 |
| ·Summary of the Study | 第59页 |
| ·Applications | 第59-60页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第60-61页 |
| REFERENCES | 第61-63页 |
| 攻读学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第63-64页 |
| 个人简况及联系方式 | 第64-66页 |
