| Appendix | 第1-9页 |
| English Abstract | 第9-10页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Introduction | 第11页 |
| ·The rational of the present study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Objective of the present study | 第12页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第12-13页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-46页 |
| ·Introduction | 第15页 |
| ·Approaches to the analysis of the third party | 第15-31页 |
| ·The medical approach | 第15-19页 |
| ·The sociological approach | 第19-28页 |
| ·The conversational analysis approach | 第28-31页 |
| ·Approaches to the analysis of question-response pair | 第31-45页 |
| ·The pragmatic approach | 第31-35页 |
| ·The conversational analysis approach | 第35-45页 |
| ·The present study | 第45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter Three Description of the Conceptual Framework | 第46-54页 |
| ·Introduction | 第46页 |
| ·Studying third parties' effects from the perspective of conversation analysis | 第46-50页 |
| ·Conversation analysis in general | 第46-48页 |
| ·Conversational analysis of the medical interview | 第48-49页 |
| ·Two major findings during history-taking phase | 第49-50页 |
| ·Studying third parties' effects from the perspective of theories of social roles and discourse roles | 第50-53页 |
| ·Social roles | 第50-52页 |
| ·Discourse roles | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter Four Data Analysis | 第54-92页 |
| ·Introduction | 第54页 |
| ·Analysis | 第54-89页 |
| ·Parents as third parties | 第55-68页 |
| ·Relatives as third parties | 第68-74页 |
| ·Children as third parties | 第74-81页 |
| ·Spouses as third parties | 第81-87页 |
| ·Friends as third parties | 第87-89页 |
| ·Discussion | 第89-91页 |
| ·Summary | 第91-92页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第92-95页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第92页 |
| ·Major findings | 第92-94页 |
| ·Limitations of this study | 第94-95页 |
| Bibliography | 第95-99页 |
| Thesis Published During the Learning Period | 第99-100页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第100-102页 |