| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Background and purpose of the study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance and research questions of the study | 第10页 |
| ·Construction of the study | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 2 Greetings in Chinese culture and Western culture | 第12-24页 |
| ·Main studies of greeting in Western countries and China | 第12-15页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principles | 第12-14页 |
| ·Brown & Levison’s Face Theory | 第14-15页 |
| ·Gu Yueguo’s Politeness Principles | 第15页 |
| ·Differences between Western and Chinese greetings | 第15-18页 |
| ·Content | 第16-17页 |
| ·Address terms | 第17-18页 |
| ·Time | 第18页 |
| ·Reasons for differences between Western and Chinese greeting | 第18-23页 |
| ·Social relationship | 第19-20页 |
| ·Relationship of humans to nature | 第20-21页 |
| ·Collectivism and individualism | 第21-22页 |
| ·Sense of time | 第22-23页 |
| ·Summary | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Relevance theory | 第24-32页 |
| ·Ostensive- inferential model | 第24-26页 |
| ·Code model and inferential model | 第24-25页 |
| ·Informative and communicative intentions | 第25-26页 |
| ·Ostensive- inferential communication | 第26页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness | 第26-28页 |
| ·Cognitive environment and manifestation | 第26-27页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness | 第27-28页 |
| ·Principles of relevance theory | 第28-29页 |
| ·Maximal relevance | 第28-29页 |
| ·Optimal relevance | 第29页 |
| ·Context | 第29-31页 |
| ·Explicture and implicture | 第30页 |
| ·Context under relevance theory | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter 4 Intercultural greeting communication | 第32-43页 |
| ·Relevance theory and intercultural communication | 第32-34页 |
| ·Relevance theory and intercultural greeting communication | 第34-41页 |
| ·Misunderstanding in inter-cultural greeting communication | 第34-36页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential model in analysis of inter-cultural greeting | 第36-37页 |
| ·Mutual manifestness in inter-cultural greeting communication | 第37-38页 |
| ·Principles of relevance in inter-cultural greeting communication | 第38-40页 |
| ·Context in inter-cultural greeting communication | 第40-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第43-45页 |
| ·Major findings | 第43-44页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for future research | 第44-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-47页 |
| Introduction of the Author | 第47-48页 |
| Publications During the Program | 第48-49页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第49-50页 |
