| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Theoretical and Practical Background of the Present Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-33页 |
| ·Business Correspondence | 第16-20页 |
| ·Characteristics of Business Correspondence | 第16-18页 |
| ·Classification of Business Correspondence | 第18-20页 |
| ·Previous Studies at Home and Abroad | 第20-22页 |
| ·Studies on Speech Acts | 第20-21页 |
| ·Studies on Business Correspondences at Home and Abroad | 第21-22页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundation | 第22-32页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第22-27页 |
| ·Searle’s Contribution to the Classification of Speech Acts | 第22-25页 |
| ·Indirectness | 第25-27页 |
| ·Politeness Theories | 第27-32页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principle | 第27-30页 |
| ·Gu Yueguo’s Politeness Model | 第30-31页 |
| ·You-Attitude | 第31-32页 |
| ·Importance of the Literature Review | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第33-44页 |
| ·Source of the Data | 第33-34页 |
| ·Processing of the Data | 第34-35页 |
| ·Application of Leech’s Categories into the Analysis of the Classification of Correspondence | 第35-40页 |
| ·The Competitive Correspondence | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Convivial Correspondence | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Collaborative Correspondence | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Conflictive Correspondence | 第39-40页 |
| ·Assessment of Speech Acts Based on Searle’s Classification | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Four Statistic Results | 第44-59页 |
| ·Results Related to the Differences and Similarities between EBCs and CBCs | 第45-54页 |
| ·Results of the Overall Analyses | 第45-47页 |
| ·Results of the Type-based Analyses | 第47-54页 |
| ·Results of the Collaborative Business Correspondence Analyses | 第48-49页 |
| ·Results of the Convivial Business Correspondence Analyses | 第49-51页 |
| ·Results of the Competitive Business Correspondence Analyses | 第51-53页 |
| ·Results of the Conflictive Business Correspondence Analyses | 第53-54页 |
| ·Results Concerning the Correlationship between Illocutionary Categories and Speech Act Types | 第54-59页 |
| ·Comparisons among the Speech Acts in the Same Type of Correspondence | 第54-57页 |
| ·Comparisons of the Same Speech Act across Different Types of Correspondences | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Five Discussions | 第59-73页 |
| ·Discussion of the Research Questions based on the Results | 第59-65页 |
| ·Discussion of Differences and Similarities between English Business Correspondence and Chinese Business Correspondence | 第59-61页 |
| ·Differences | 第59-60页 |
| ·Similarities | 第60-61页 |
| ·Match and Mismatch between Speech Acts and Types of Correspondence | 第61-63页 |
| ·Mismatch | 第62-63页 |
| ·Match | 第63页 |
| ·Discussion on the Indirect Speech Acts | 第63-65页 |
| ·Possible Factors for the Differences and Similarities in EBCs and CBCs | 第65-71页 |
| ·Possible Factors for the Differences | 第65-69页 |
| ·Linguistic Perspective | 第66页 |
| ·Social Perspective | 第66-68页 |
| ·Cultural Perspective | 第68-69页 |
| ·Possible Factors for the Similarities | 第69-71页 |
| ·Possible Factors for the Match and Mismatch between the Speech Acts and Types of Correspondences | 第71-73页 |
| ·Factors for the Mismatch | 第71-72页 |
| ·Factors for the Match | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第73-77页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第73-75页 |
| ·Implications | 第75页 |
| ·Limitations | 第75-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-80页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix | 第81-106页 |
| 攻读硕士期间发表的论文 | 第106页 |
