| 中文摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第9-10页 |
| Table of Contents | 第10-12页 |
| Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Lists of Tables and Figures | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第15-20页 |
| ·Object of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Need for the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第17-19页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第20-30页 |
| ·Defining the Speech Act of Suggesting | 第20-23页 |
| ·Previous Pragmatic Studies on Speech Acts | 第23-27页 |
| ·Cross-cultural and Interlanguage pragmatic studies on suggesting | 第23-24页 |
| ·Studies on Chinese EFL learners' suggesting | 第24-25页 |
| ·Taxonomy of suggesting strategies in Li's Study | 第25-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Speech Acts in Academic Writing | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three FACE THEORY | 第30-35页 |
| ·Defining Face | 第30-31页 |
| ·Face-threatening Acts | 第31页 |
| ·Strategies for Doing Face Threatening Acts | 第31-33页 |
| ·Different Cultural Perceptions of Face | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four METHODOLOGY | 第35-44页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第35-36页 |
| ·Participants | 第36页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第36-38页 |
| ·Data source of articles | 第36-37页 |
| ·Interview data | 第37-38页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第38-44页 |
| Chapter Five RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第44-76页 |
| ·Suggesting Types of the Two Groups in Academic Writing | 第44-50页 |
| ·Suggesting types in academic writing | 第44-45页 |
| ·Similarities and differences between the two groups | 第45-50页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies in Suggestions of the Two Groups | 第50-58页 |
| ·Politeness strategies adopted in academic writing | 第50-51页 |
| ·Similarities and differences between the two groups | 第51-58页 |
| ·The Linguistic Realization of Politeness Strategies | 第58-68页 |
| ·The linguistic realization of politeness strategies in academic writing | 第59-60页 |
| ·Similarities and differences between the two groups | 第60-68页 |
| ·Factors Accounted for the Differences | 第68-74页 |
| ·Factors underlying the differences in the employment of suggesting types | 第69-70页 |
| ·Factors underlying the differences in the employment of politeness strategies and their corresponding linguistic realization | 第70-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-76页 |
| Chapter Six CONCLUSION | 第76-81页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第76-78页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第78-79页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Future Research | 第79-81页 |
| References | 第81-86页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第86-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第87-88页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第88-89页 |
