| 目录 | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Research Background | 第11-13页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第13-14页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Method | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of this Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-21页 |
| ·Studies on the Directives | 第16-18页 |
| ·Studies on the Directives Abroad | 第16-17页 |
| ·Studies on the Directives at Home | 第17-18页 |
| ·Studies on the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第18-20页 |
| ·Studies on the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses from the Perspective of Politics | 第18-19页 |
| ·Studies on the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses from the Perspective of Linguistics | 第19-20页 |
| ·Limitations of Past Studies | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第21-35页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21-23页 |
| ·Types of Speech Acts | 第23-25页 |
| ·Types of Speech Acts Proposed by Austin | 第23-24页 |
| ·Searle’s Development in the Types of Speech Acts | 第24-25页 |
| ·Defining Some Key Terms | 第25-32页 |
| ·Performatives and Constatives | 第25-27页 |
| ·Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts | 第27-29页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions of Speech Acts | 第29-31页 |
| ·Indirect Speech Acts | 第31-32页 |
| ·An Overview of Directives | 第32-35页 |
| ·Definition of Directives | 第32-33页 |
| ·Felicity Conditions of Directives | 第33-34页 |
| ·Types of Directives | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Four Data Analysis and Discussion | 第35-77页 |
| ·Types of Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第36-41页 |
| ·Direct Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第36-38页 |
| ·Conventional Indirect Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第38-40页 |
| ·Non-Conventional Indirect Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第40-41页 |
| ·Analysis of the Realization of Direct Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第41-53页 |
| ·Lexical Devices for the Realization of Direct Directives | 第41-45页 |
| ·Syntactic Devices for the Realization of Direct Directive | 第45-53页 |
| ·Analysis of the Realization of Conventional Indirect Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第53-72页 |
| ·Lexical Devices for the Realization of Conventional Indirect Directives | 第53-65页 |
| ·Syntactic Devices for the Realization of Conventional Indirect Directives | 第65-72页 |
| ·Analysis of the Realization of Non-Conventional Indirect Directives in the American Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第72-77页 |
| ·Non-Conventional Indirect Directives Under the Contextual Background of Warfare | 第73-75页 |
| ·Non-Conventional Indirect Directives under the Contextual Background of Economic Crisis | 第75-77页 |
| Chatper Five Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第77-78页 |
| ·Implications and Limitations of the Study | 第78-80页 |
| Notes | 第80-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-85页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第85-86页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间所发表的学术论文 | 第86页 |
