| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Limitation of the Study | 第15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-24页 |
| ·Studies of Greetings in the West | 第17-23页 |
| ·On the Linguistic Level | 第18-19页 |
| ·On the Sociolinguistic Level | 第19-22页 |
| ·On the Anthropological Linguistics Level | 第22-23页 |
| ·Studies of Greetings in China | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter Three Rationale and Conceptualization | 第24-44页 |
| ·Rationale | 第24-33页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principles | 第25-29页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory | 第29-31页 |
| ·Gu’s Theory related to Chinese Culture | 第31-33页 |
| ·Conceptualization | 第33-44页 |
| ·Definition and Description of Greeting | 第33-35页 |
| ·Categories of Greetings | 第35-44页 |
| ·Greetings on the basis of time | 第35-37页 |
| ·Greetings in terms of formality | 第37-38页 |
| ·Greetings according to content | 第38-40页 |
| ·Greetings related to regionality | 第40页 |
| ·Greetings in relation to social settings | 第40-42页 |
| ·Greetings in connection with language origin | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Four Research Methodology | 第44-53页 |
| ·Study Objective and Research Questions | 第44页 |
| ·Hypotheses | 第44-45页 |
| ·Method | 第45-53页 |
| ·Subjects | 第45页 |
| ·The Design of Questionnaires | 第45-48页 |
| ·Literary Sources | 第45-46页 |
| ·Participant Observation | 第46页 |
| ·Two Parts of the Questionnaire | 第46-48页 |
| ·Instrument | 第48-51页 |
| ·Procedures | 第51页 |
| ·Data Collection and Data Coding | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Five Discussion and Implication | 第53-93页 |
| ·Differences between English and Chinese Greetings | 第53-75页 |
| ·Differences in Content | 第53-56页 |
| ·Differences in Frequency of Use | 第56-67页 |
| ·All-time greetings | 第57-59页 |
| ·Real-time greetings | 第59-61页 |
| ·Formal greeting | 第61-63页 |
| ·Weather greetings | 第63-65页 |
| ·Inquiry greetings | 第65-67页 |
| ·Differences in Degree of Politeness | 第67-70页 |
| ·Differences in Address Terms as Greeting | 第70-75页 |
| ·Main Factors Causing the Differences | 第75-85页 |
| ·Social factors | 第75-78页 |
| ·Social power | 第76-77页 |
| ·Social distance | 第77-78页 |
| ·Cultural factors | 第78-84页 |
| ·English culture and politeness | 第79-81页 |
| ·Chinese culture and Limao | 第81-83页 |
| ·English concept of privacy and Chinese concept of attitudinal warmth | 第83-84页 |
| ·Philosophical source factors | 第84-85页 |
| ·Implications and Suggestions | 第85-93页 |
| ·Greeting problems in cross-cultural communication | 第86-89页 |
| ·Developing cross-cultural awareness for greeting | 第89-91页 |
| ·Promoting intercultural communication competence in EFL | 第91-93页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第93-96页 |
| References | 第96-101页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第101-105页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第105-122页 |
