| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter1 Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| ·Motivation | 第12-14页 |
| ·Relativity of Politeness | 第14-15页 |
| ·Comparability of Politeness | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methodology | 第16-17页 |
| ·Thesis Structure | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter2 Literature Review | 第18-29页 |
| ·Grice's Cooperative Principles | 第18-20页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principles | 第20-22页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's "Face" Theory | 第22-24页 |
| ·Gu Yueguo's Politeness Model | 第24-29页 |
| Chapter3 Influence of Contextual Variables on Politeness Formulae | 第29-37页 |
| ·Context | 第29-32页 |
| ·Contextual Constraints on the Use of Politeness Formulae | 第32-37页 |
| ·Field | 第32-33页 |
| ·Tenor | 第33-37页 |
| ·Context Variables in Leech's PP | 第34页 |
| ·Context Variables in Brown and Levinson's Face Theory | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter4 Cultural Factors on Politeness | 第37-49页 |
| ·The Relationship between Culture and Politeness | 第37-39页 |
| ·Perspectives on Politeness | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Relationship between Culture and Politeness Formulae | 第38-39页 |
| ·Different Cultural Patterns in English and Chinese | 第39-42页 |
| ·Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures | 第39-41页 |
| ·Power Distance Dimension | 第41-42页 |
| ·Cultural differences in Context Variables | 第42-49页 |
| Chapter5 A Contrastive Study of Politeness Formulae between English and Chinese | 第49-77页 |
| ·Greetings | 第49-62页 |
| ·Different Preferences for Greetings between English and Chinese under the Influence of Different Cultural Patterns | 第50-56页 |
| ·Cultural Background VS Context Variables | 第56-62页 |
| ·Responding to Compliments | 第62-77页 |
| ·Different responses to compliments in English and Chinese | 第62-66页 |
| ·Herbert's Classification of Responses to English Compliments | 第63-65页 |
| ·Chen Rong's Classification of Responses to Chinese Compliments | 第65-66页 |
| ·Cultural factors and context variables | 第66-77页 |
| Chapter6 Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| Bibliogrophy | 第80-84页 |
