| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·Research background | 第13-17页 |
| ·Research objectives | 第17页 |
| ·Research significance | 第17-18页 |
| ·Research methods | 第18-19页 |
| ·Framework of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第21-32页 |
| ·Previous researches on The Age of Innocence | 第21-27页 |
| ·Foreign researches | 第21-25页 |
| ·Domestic researches | 第25-27页 |
| ·Previous researches on Kinesics | 第27-32页 |
| ·Foreign researches | 第27-29页 |
| ·Domestic researches | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundations | 第32-48页 |
| ·Related concepts with Kinesics | 第32-39页 |
| ·Definition of communication and its classification | 第32-33页 |
| ·Relationship between nonverbal communication and verbal communication | 第33-34页 |
| ·Classification of nonverbal codes | 第34-35页 |
| ·Kinesics | 第35-39页 |
| ·Key concepts in Relevance Theory | 第39-48页 |
| ·Cognitive environment, mutual manifestness and context | 第39-42页 |
| ·Relevance and contextual effects | 第42-44页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential model of communication | 第44-48页 |
| Chapter 4 Relevance-Theoretical Analysis for Kinesics Between the Personage in The Age of Innocence | 第48-82页 |
| ·Manifestness of informative intention | 第49-68页 |
| ·Gestures and postures | 第49-54页 |
| ·Emblem | 第49-50页 |
| ·Illustrator | 第50-52页 |
| ·Affect display | 第52-53页 |
| ·Adaptation | 第53-54页 |
| ·Touching behavior | 第54-58页 |
| ·Social/polite | 第55-56页 |
| ·Friendship/warmth | 第56-57页 |
| ·Love/intimacy | 第57-58页 |
| ·Eye behavior | 第58-64页 |
| ·Regulating the flow of communication | 第58-59页 |
| ·Monitoring feedback | 第59-60页 |
| ·Reflecting cognitive activity | 第60-62页 |
| ·Expressing emotions | 第62-63页 |
| ·Interpersonal relationship | 第63-64页 |
| ·Facial expressions | 第64-68页 |
| ·Channel control | 第64-65页 |
| ·Complementing or qualifying other behavior | 第65-66页 |
| ·Replacing spoken messages | 第66-67页 |
| ·Expressing emotions | 第67-68页 |
| ·Inference of contextual effects | 第68-82页 |
| ·Postures and gestures | 第68-72页 |
| ·Contextual implicature | 第69-70页 |
| ·Strengthening | 第70-71页 |
| ·Weakening | 第71-72页 |
| ·Touching behavior | 第72-75页 |
| ·Contextual implicature | 第72-73页 |
| ·Strenthening | 第73-74页 |
| ·Weakening | 第74-75页 |
| ·Eye behavior | 第75-77页 |
| ·Contextual implicature | 第75-76页 |
| ·Strenthening | 第76-77页 |
| ·Weakening | 第77页 |
| ·Facial expressions | 第77-82页 |
| ·Contextual implicature | 第78-79页 |
| ·Strengthening | 第79-80页 |
| ·Weakening | 第80-82页 |
| Chapter 5 Relevance-Theoretical Analysis for Kinesics Between the Author and the Reader in The Age of Innocence | 第82-100页 |
| ·Kinesic behavior to convey informative intention of the author | 第83-91页 |
| ·Vertical illustrations of May s typical kinesic behavior | 第84-88页 |
| ·Vertical illustrations of Ellen s typical kinesic behavior | 第88-91页 |
| ·The reader s inference from the kinesic behavior | 第91-95页 |
| ·Life experience of the author | 第92-93页 |
| ·The writing background of the novel | 第93-95页 |
| ·Communicative intention of the author | 第95-100页 |
| ·Communicative intention of May s kinesic behavior | 第95-98页 |
| ·Communicative intention of Ellen s kinesic behavior | 第98-100页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第100-104页 |
| Bibliography | 第104-108页 |
| Appendix | 第108页 |
