| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Background | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of the present study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Aims of the present study | 第15页 |
| ·An overview of this Dissertation | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-34页 |
| ·Overview of Repair Studies | 第17-24页 |
| ·Studies of Repair by Foreign Researchers | 第17-20页 |
| ·Repair and SLA | 第18-19页 |
| ·Repair and Other Relevant Fields | 第19-20页 |
| ·Studies of Repair by Domestic Researchers | 第20-23页 |
| ·Focuses of Domestic Studies | 第21页 |
| ·Studies through Different Methods | 第21-22页 |
| ·Repair in Different Contexts | 第22-23页 |
| ·Comments on the Previous Studies | 第23-24页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundations for the Present Study | 第24-34页 |
| ·Terminology | 第24-25页 |
| ·SJS’s Theory on Repair | 第25-29页 |
| ·Self-repair Patterns in the Present Study | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology and Procedures | 第34-48页 |
| ·Methodology | 第34-37页 |
| ·Reasons for Choosing the Methodology | 第35页 |
| ·The Corpus and Tools | 第35-37页 |
| ·Research Procedures | 第37-48页 |
| ·The Pilot Study | 第37-45页 |
| ·Discourse markers in Initiation Moves | 第38-44页 |
| ·The Conclusion of the search words | 第44-45页 |
| ·Procedures to identify and mark the repair organization in the corpus | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第48-62页 |
| ·General description and discussion of the search results of repairs | 第48-50页 |
| ·Description and discussion of self-repairs | 第50-62页 |
| ·Covert self-repair in the corpus | 第51-56页 |
| ·Why are there so many repetitions in the Corpus? | 第52-54页 |
| ·Features and Causes of the distribution of repetitions in the Corpus | 第54-56页 |
| ·Overt self-repair in the corpus | 第56-62页 |
| ·Why is there more ROM than ROF in the corpus? | 第56-58页 |
| ·Features of Overt Self-repair in the Corpus | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第62-67页 |
| ·Major findings and the implications of the present study | 第62-64页 |
| ·Suggestions for further studies | 第64-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第65-67页 |
| Appendix | 第67-68页 |
| References | 第68-74页 |
| Publication | 第74页 |