| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Table of Contents (English) | 第10-13页 |
| Table of Contents (Chinese) | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-22页 |
| ·Introduction | 第16页 |
| ·Rationale of the research | 第16-18页 |
| ·Objectives and research questions of the present study | 第18页 |
| ·Overinformativeness: target of the present study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Notes on methodology, terminology and data | 第20-21页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of Related Studies | 第22-33页 |
| ·Introduction | 第22页 |
| ·Previous studies on research in courtroom setting | 第22-27页 |
| ·The ethnographic approach | 第22-23页 |
| ·The sociolinguistic approach | 第23-24页 |
| ·The conversation analysis approach | 第24-26页 |
| ·The pragmatic approach | 第26-27页 |
| ·Previous studies on overinformativeness | 第27-31页 |
| ·The initiator's overinformativesnes | 第27-28页 |
| ·Embedded speech acts | 第27-28页 |
| ·Supportive moves | 第28页 |
| ·The responder's overinformativeness | 第28-30页 |
| ·Added moves | 第28-29页 |
| ·Breaching of the Maxim of Quantity | 第29页 |
| ·Dispreferred responses | 第29-30页 |
| ·The initiator and the responder's overinformativeness | 第30-31页 |
| ·Discussion: achievements and limitations | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three A Description of the Conceptual Framework | 第33-46页 |
| ·Introduction | 第33页 |
| ·Theoretical background to the present study | 第33-39页 |
| ·Verschueren's linguistic adaptation theory | 第33-37页 |
| ·Pragmatic as a functional perspective on language use | 第33-34页 |
| ·Adaptation Theory | 第34-37页 |
| ·Brown &Levinson's face theory | 第37-38页 |
| ·Grice's theory of implicature | 第38-39页 |
| ·A general picture of overinformative language in civil courtroom setting | 第39-41页 |
| ·The physical setting of the civil courtroom | 第39-40页 |
| ·Courtroom interaction | 第40-41页 |
| ·Overinformativeness as realization of adaptation | 第41页 |
| ·Description of the conceptual framework | 第41-44页 |
| ·Initiating acts | 第41-42页 |
| ·Communicative needs | 第42页 |
| ·Contextual correlates | 第42-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Four Adaptability of Overinformativeness | 第46-55页 |
| ·Introduction | 第46页 |
| ·Defining the adaptability | 第46页 |
| ·Adaptability of overinformativeness in civil courtroom | 第46-54页 |
| ·The adaptability of the judge's overinformativenss | 第47-51页 |
| ·Adaptation to social world | 第47-48页 |
| ·Adaptation to physical world | 第48-49页 |
| ·Adaptation to mental world | 第49-51页 |
| ·The adaptability of the parties' overinformativenss | 第51-54页 |
| ·Adaptation to social world | 第51页 |
| ·Adaptation to physical world | 第51-52页 |
| ·Adaptation to mental world | 第52-54页 |
| ·The parties' mental word | 第52-53页 |
| ·The parties' assumption of the judge's mental world | 第53-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter Five Functionality of Overinformativeness | 第55-66页 |
| ·Introduction | 第55页 |
| ·Defining the notion of functionality | 第55-57页 |
| ·The communicative functions of overinformativeness in civil courtroom | 第57-65页 |
| ·The communicative functions of the judge's overinformativeness | 第57-62页 |
| ·Explaining the legal term | 第57-59页 |
| ·Shortening the mental distance between the judge and the parties | 第59-60页 |
| ·Persuading the parties on the basis of the facts | 第60-61页 |
| ·Appeasing the parties' emotion | 第61-62页 |
| ·The communicative functions of the parties' overinformativeness | 第62-65页 |
| ·Reinforcing interactional harmony | 第62-63页 |
| ·Intensifying interactional attitude | 第63页 |
| ·Raising interactional efficiency | 第63-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·Introduction | 第66页 |
| ·Major findings | 第66-67页 |
| ·Implications | 第67页 |
| ·Limitations | 第67页 |
| ·Suggestion for further research | 第67-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-74页 |
| 个人情况及联系方式 | 第74-75页 |
| 承诺书 | 第75页 |
