| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| List of Tables | 第10-11页 |
| List of Figures | 第11-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-32页 |
| 1.1 Previous Studies on Compliments and Compliment Responses | 第15-22页 |
| 1.1.1 Relevant Terms of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| 1.1.2 Compliment Topics and Functions | 第16-18页 |
| 1.1.3 Taxonomies of Compliment Responses | 第18-22页 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies on Language Variation and Change | 第22-25页 |
| 1.2.1 Social Variables of Language | 第22-24页 |
| 1.2.2 Variationist Viewpoint of Language Contact | 第24-25页 |
| 1.3 Current Situation of the Use of Compliments and Compliment Responses in Chinese | 第25-30页 |
| 1.3.1 The Compliment Lexicons in Chinese Situation | 第26-27页 |
| 1.3.2 The Compliment Syntactic Structures in Chinese Situation | 第27-29页 |
| 1.3.3 Compliment Topics in Chinese Situation | 第29-30页 |
| 1.3.4 Compliment Responses Strategies | 第30页 |
| 1.4 Comments on the Previous Researches | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第32-40页 |
| 2.1 Politeness Principle | 第32-37页 |
| 2.1.1 Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory | 第32-35页 |
| 2.1.2 Leech’s Politeness Principle | 第35-36页 |
| 2.1.3 Gu’s Chinese Politeness Principle | 第36-37页 |
| 2.2 Variation Theory | 第37-40页 |
| 2.2.1 Sociolinguistic Patterns of Language | 第37-38页 |
| 2.2.2 The Appropriate Data for Language Analysis | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第40-48页 |
| 3.1 Hypothesis | 第40页 |
| 3.2 Research Subjects | 第40-41页 |
| 3.3 Data Collection | 第41-43页 |
| 3.3.1 Tape-recording Naturalistic Conversation | 第41-42页 |
| 3.3.2 Observation of the Daily Speech | 第42页 |
| 3.3.3 Interview | 第42-43页 |
| 3.4 Data Processing | 第43-48页 |
| 3.4.1 Transcription of the Speech Data | 第47页 |
| 3.4.2 Analysis of the Speech Data by GoldVarb X | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第48-72页 |
| 4.1 Changes of Compliment and Compliment Response Strategies in Chinese | 第48-61页 |
| 4.1.1 Overall Patterns of the Change | 第48-49页 |
| 4.1.2 Present Compliment Lexicons | 第49-50页 |
| 4.1.3 Compliment Syntactic Structures | 第50-53页 |
| 4.1.4 Compliment Topics | 第53-54页 |
| 4.1.5 Compliment Response Strategies | 第54-61页 |
| 4.2 Variation of Compliment Response Strategy | 第61-68页 |
| 4.2.1 Compliment Responses and Gender | 第61-63页 |
| 4.2.2 Compliment Responses and Age | 第63-66页 |
| 4.2.3 Compliment Responses and Educational Level | 第66-68页 |
| 4.3 Causes for the Variation and Change of Compliment Response Strategies in Chinese | 第68-72页 |
| 4.3.1 Traditional Perspective | 第68-69页 |
| 4.3.2 Social Perspective | 第69-70页 |
| 4.3.3 Cultural Perspective | 第70-72页 |
| Chapter Five Implications of the Study | 第72-74页 |
| 5.1 Importance of Understanding Compliment Response Strategy in Chinese Learning | 第72页 |
| 5.2 Significance of Using Proper Compliment Response strategies in Cross-cultural Communications | 第72-74页 |
| Conclusion | 第74-77页 |
| Work Cited | 第77-80页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix A: Coding for Each Factor Group | 第81-83页 |
| Appendix B: Examples of Compliment and Compliment Responses | 第83-84页 |
| Informative Abstract in Chinese | 第84-87页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第87页 |
