| Introduction | 第6-8页 |
| Part One What is Repair and How is Repair Related to Gender Difference | 第8-23页 |
| 1.1 Defining Repair | 第8-16页 |
| 1.1.1 What is Meant by 'Repair'? | 第8-9页 |
| 1.1.2 The Place of Repair in Conversation Analysis | 第9-14页 |
| 1.1.3 Why Do Speakers Repair Their Utterances | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2 Gender Difference: 'Women's Language' | 第16-21页 |
| 1.2.1 Gender and Sex | 第17页 |
| 1.2.2 Language and Its Gender Difference | 第17-18页 |
| 1.2.3 Characteristics of Women's Language | 第18-21页 |
| 1.3 The Role of Context in Interpreting Repair | 第21-23页 |
| 1.3.1 The Central Role of Context in Discourse Analysis | 第21页 |
| 1.3.2 Contextual Features Most Relevant to This Study | 第21-23页 |
| Part Two Research Method | 第23-29页 |
| 2.1 The Ethnographic Research Tradition | 第23页 |
| 2.2 Features of Interview as an Institutional Interaction | 第23-24页 |
| 2.3 Data Collection | 第24-25页 |
| 2.4 Data Recording and Transcription | 第25-27页 |
| 2.5 Justification for the Sample Data and Their Limitations | 第27-29页 |
| Part Three Cases under Which Repair Occurs in Conversation | 第29-32页 |
| Part Four Findings from Recorded Data about Gender Difference in Repair in Interviews | 第32-60页 |
| 4.1 The Nature of Repair | 第32-35页 |
| 4.1.1 RSC or ROC, Which is More Typical? | 第32-35页 |
| 4.2 Order of Frequency of Self-initiated and Other-initiated Repairs in Women's Talk | 第35-49页 |
| 4.2.1 Repair Types | 第35-41页 |
| 4.2.2 Preference for Self Repair | 第41-43页 |
| 4.2.3 Order of Preferred Patterns of Repair | 第43-49页 |
| 4.3 Frequency of Women's Repair Compared with That of Men's | 第49-60页 |
| 4.3.1 Frequency of Repair | 第49-58页 |
| 4.3.2 Ratio of RSC/ROC, A Comparison between Males and Females | 第58-60页 |
| Conclusion | 第60-65页 |
| References | 第65-66页 |
