| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| ·Stylistic Features of Business Correspondence | 第13-17页 |
| ·Research Purpose | 第17-18页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第18页 |
| ·Thesis Organization | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第20-27页 |
| ·Studies on Business Correspondence | 第20-23页 |
| ·Definition of Business Correspondence | 第20页 |
| ·Classification of Business Correspondence | 第20-21页 |
| ·Functions of Business Correspondence | 第21-23页 |
| ·Studies on Euphemistic Speech | 第23-27页 |
| ·Foreign Studies | 第23-24页 |
| ·Domestic Studies | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Relevance Theory | 第27-38页 |
| ·Ostensive-Inferential Communication | 第27-28页 |
| ·Cognitive Environments and Their Mutual Manifestness | 第28-30页 |
| ·Relevance | 第30-38页 |
| ·Definition of Relevance | 第30-32页 |
| ·Degree of Relevance | 第32-33页 |
| ·Two Principles of Relevance | 第33-35页 |
| ·Poetic Effect | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Euphemistic Business Correspondence as an Ostensive-Inferential Communication | 第38-50页 |
| ·Mutual Manifestness of Writer’s and Reader’s Cognitive Environments | 第38-43页 |
| ·Writer’s and Reader’s Cognitive Environments | 第38-41页 |
| ·Mutual Manifestness of Their Cognitive Environments | 第41-43页 |
| ·Writer’s Ostension through Euphemistic Speech | 第43-47页 |
| ·Informative Intention | 第43-45页 |
| ·Communicative Intention | 第45-47页 |
| ·Reader’s Inference of the Implicatures of Euphemistic Speech | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter 5 Relevance of Euphemistic Speech in English Business Correspondence | 第50-63页 |
| ·Degree of Relevance | 第50-56页 |
| ·Contextual Effects of Euphemistic Speech in Business Correspondence | 第50-53页 |
| ·Effort for Processing Euphemistic Speech in Business Correspondence | 第53-56页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance of Euphemistic Speech in Business Correspondence | 第56-59页 |
| ·Poetic Effects of Euphemistic Speech in Business Correspondence | 第59-63页 |
| Chapter 6 Context-based Linguistic Choices in English Euphemistic Business Correspondence | 第63-74页 |
| ·Linguistic Choices in Euphemistic Business Correspondence | 第63-69页 |
| ·Phonetic Choice | 第63-64页 |
| ·Morphologic Choice | 第64-66页 |
| ·Syntactic Choice | 第66-67页 |
| ·Semantic Choice | 第67-68页 |
| ·Pragmatic Choice | 第68-69页 |
| ·Contextual Factors for the Linguistic Choices | 第69-74页 |
| ·Cognitive Context | 第69-70页 |
| ·Psychological Context | 第70-71页 |
| ·Social Context | 第71-72页 |
| ·Cultural Context | 第72-74页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第74-76页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第74页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第74-75页 |
| ·Suggestions of the Study | 第75-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-79页 |
| Publications During My M.A. Study | 第79页 |
