| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1 Practical and Academic Settings of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Objective and Methodology of the Study | 第14-16页 |
| 1.3 Structure and Contents of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-26页 |
| 2.1 Personal and Impersonal Expressions | 第17-19页 |
| 2.2 Studies of Personal and Impersonal Expressions | 第19-22页 |
| 2.3 Studies of Friends | 第22-24页 |
| 2.3.1 A Brief Introduction to the English Scripts of Friends | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3.2 Present Studies of Friends | 第23-24页 |
| 2.4 Achievements and Weaknesses in Previous Studies | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第26-33页 |
| 3.1 Research Objective and Questions | 第26-27页 |
| 3.2 Philosophical Guideline and Theoretical Basis | 第27-28页 |
| 3.3 Research Data | 第28-30页 |
| 3.4 Research Methods | 第30-32页 |
| 3.4.1 Comparative and Contrastive Analysis | 第30-31页 |
| 3.4.2 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis | 第31-32页 |
| 3.5 Research Procedure: Data Collection and Analysis | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第33-70页 |
| 4.1 Results of the Study | 第33-61页 |
| 4.1.1 Difference in the Frequency of Use of Personal and ImpersonalExpressions in English and Chinese Spoken Texts of Friends | 第33-39页 |
| 4.1.2 Difference in the Manifestation of Use of Personal and ImpersonalExpressions in English and Chinese Spoken Texts of Friends | 第39-61页 |
| 4.2 Discussion: Causes of Difference | 第61-68页 |
| 4.2.1 Intuitive Thinking and Formal-logical Thinking | 第62-64页 |
| 4.2.2 Subjective and Objective Thinking | 第64-65页 |
| 4.2.3 Imaginative Thinking and Positive Thinking | 第65-67页 |
| 4.2.4 Holistic Thinking and Analytic Thinking | 第67-68页 |
| 4.3 Conclusions | 第68-70页 |
| Chapter Five Concluding Remarks | 第70-73页 |
| 5.1 Process and Major Findings of the Study | 第70-71页 |
| 5.2 Implications and Limitations of the Study | 第71-73页 |
| References | 第73-76页 |
| About the Author | 第76页 |
