| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12页 |
| ·Rationale | 第12-13页 |
| ·Definitions of terms | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research topic: adjacency pairs in turn taking | 第14-15页 |
| ·Data and methodology | 第15页 |
| ·Contents of the remaining chapters | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Review of the Relevant Literature | 第17-40页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17页 |
| ·Conversation Analysis | 第17-22页 |
| ·Conversation and Conversation Analysis | 第17-19页 |
| ·Development of CA | 第19-20页 |
| ·Definition of CA | 第20-22页 |
| ·Turn-taking Model | 第22-28页 |
| ·Some observations about conversation | 第22-23页 |
| ·Two components of turn-taking model | 第23-25页 |
| ·'Turn construction' component | 第23-24页 |
| ·Turn-allocation component | 第24-25页 |
| ·Overlap---a sample of orientation to turn-taking rules | 第25-28页 |
| ·Adjacency pair | 第28-30页 |
| ·Institutional talk | 第30-34页 |
| ·Institutional talk is task-oriented | 第31-32页 |
| ·Constraints on contributions in institutional talk | 第32-33页 |
| ·Inference in institutional contexts | 第33-34页 |
| ·Dimensions of research for institutional talk | 第34-39页 |
| ·Lexical choice | 第34-35页 |
| ·Turn design | 第35-38页 |
| ·Selecting an action | 第35-36页 |
| ·Selecting the verbal shape of an action | 第36-38页 |
| ·Sequence organization | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter 3 Description of the Theoretical Framework | 第40-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第40页 |
| ·The theoretical framework for the present study | 第40-41页 |
| ·Description of the theoretical framework | 第41-49页 |
| ·Conditional relevance | 第41-45页 |
| ·Overlaps | 第42页 |
| ·Pauses | 第42-45页 |
| ·Relative ordering and preference organization | 第45-49页 |
| ·Relative ordering | 第45-47页 |
| ·Preference organization | 第47-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis | 第51-77页 |
| ·Introduction | 第51页 |
| ·Overlaps | 第51-58页 |
| ·Overlaps resulting from contest in cross-examination | 第52-55页 |
| ·Overlaps in objection sequences | 第55-58页 |
| ·Pauses | 第58-68页 |
| ·Pause for clarity and audibility | 第59-62页 |
| ·Pauses conveying impressions about testimony and credibility | 第62-65页 |
| ·Pauses for counsel/prosecutor's exercise of power of contrast | 第65-68页 |
| ·Local management of action sequence | 第68-76页 |
| ·Blame and challenge in the format of questions | 第68-72页 |
| ·Actions in the format of questions | 第69-71页 |
| ·Interactions between counsel/prosecutor and witness/defendant | 第71-72页 |
| ·Counsel/prosecutor's dealing with justifications | 第72-76页 |
| ·Side-step the justification | 第73-74页 |
| ·Strike out the 'redundant' element | 第74-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76-77页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| ·Introduction | 第77页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第77-78页 |
| ·Implications | 第78-79页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第79-80页 |
| References | 第80-82页 |
