| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Definition of Addressing Terms | 第10-13页 |
| ·History and Significance of the Study of Addressing Terms | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Studies of Addressing Terms | 第16-28页 |
| ·Investigation from Sociolinguistic Perspective | 第16-18页 |
| ·Power and Solidarity | 第16-17页 |
| ·Addressing Terms in American English | 第17-18页 |
| ·Investigation from Pragmatic Perspective | 第18-26页 |
| ·Three Politeness Theories | 第18-23页 |
| ·Dynamic Context | 第23-25页 |
| ·Communicative Motivation | 第25-26页 |
| ·Investigation from Cultural Perspective | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Constitution of Addressing Terms in A Dream of Red Mansions | 第28-35页 |
| ·Classification of Addressing Terms in This Novel | 第28-32页 |
| ·Kinship Terms | 第28-30页 |
| ·Social Addressing Terms | 第30页 |
| ·Teknonymy | 第30-31页 |
| ·Naming Terms | 第31-32页 |
| ·Addressing Terms with Modifiers | 第32页 |
| ·Features of Addressing Terms in This Novel | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Addressing Terms and Politeness | 第35-49页 |
| ·Determining Utterance Politeness | 第35-39页 |
| ·Linguistic Politeness and Utterance Politeness | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Process of Determining Utterance Politeness | 第37-39页 |
| ·Pragmatic Distance as a Dynamic Factor | 第39-43页 |
| ·Fluidity | 第39-41页 |
| ·Negotiability | 第41-43页 |
| ·Power and Status as Static Factors | 第43-49页 |
| ·Power | 第43-46页 |
| ·Status | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Addressing Terms and Dynamic Context | 第49-63页 |
| ·The Physical World | 第51-53页 |
| ·Temporal Factor | 第51-52页 |
| ·Spatial Factor | 第52-53页 |
| ·Linguistic Context | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Social World | 第54-58页 |
| ·Formal Occasion | 第55-56页 |
| ·Informal Occasion | 第56-58页 |
| ·The Mental World | 第58-63页 |
| ·Personality | 第58-60页 |
| ·Emotion | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter 6 Addressing Terms and Communicative Motivation | 第63-67页 |
| ·Psychological Account of Motivation | 第63-64页 |
| ·Pragmatic Account of Motivation | 第64页 |
| ·Correlation between Addressing Terms and Communicative Motivation | 第64-67页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第67-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-73页 |
