| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 内容提要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Politeness Studies in Western Culture and Chinese Culture | 第11-25页 |
| ·Politeness studies in western culture | 第11-18页 |
| ·Brown & Levinson’s theory of politeness | 第11-14页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principle | 第14-18页 |
| ·Grice’s CP and the 4 conventional maxims | 第14-16页 |
| ·Leech’s PP and its maxims | 第16-18页 |
| ·Politeness in Chinese culture | 第18-25页 |
| ·Gu’s politeness principle | 第19-22页 |
| ·Mao’s relative face orientation construct | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Three Request Strategies in English and Chinese | 第25-34页 |
| ·Studies of CCSARP | 第25-29页 |
| ·Elements of English requests | 第26-27页 |
| ·English Request strategies | 第27-29页 |
| ·Features of request strategies in Chinese | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Four A Quantitative Study of English Request Strategies Employed by Chinese English Learners | 第34-61页 |
| ·Research design | 第34-37页 |
| ·Purpose | 第34页 |
| ·Instrument | 第34-36页 |
| ·Subjects | 第36-37页 |
| ·Procedure | 第37页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第37-61页 |
| ·Results of the study | 第38-43页 |
| ·Failures in the study | 第38-40页 |
| ·Range of the strategy types | 第40-43页 |
| ·Direct requests | 第41页 |
| ·Conventionally indirect requests | 第41-42页 |
| ·Non-conventionally indirect requests | 第42-43页 |
| ·Situational variation in selection of request strategies | 第43页 |
| ·Discussion | 第43-61页 |
| ·Learners’pragmatic competence in making English requests | 第43-50页 |
| ·Learners’request types | 第43-44页 |
| ·Learner’s use of query preparatory requests | 第44-47页 |
| ·Learners’choice of modal verb | 第47页 |
| ·Imperatives | 第47-49页 |
| ·Awareness of situational differences | 第49-50页 |
| ·Influences of the native language on their choice of English request strategies | 第50-57页 |
| ·Characteristics of Chinese requests | 第50-52页 |
| ·Negative influences of Chinese request strategies | 第52-54页 |
| ·Positive influences of Chinese request strategies | 第54-57页 |
| ·Influences of the CELs’English proficiency | 第57-61页 |
| Chapter Five Implications of the Study | 第61-66页 |
| ·Implications for English teaching | 第61-64页 |
| ·Awareness of the pragmatic differences | 第62页 |
| ·Development of learners’pragmatic competence | 第62-64页 |
| ·Implications for further research | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第66-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-70页 |
| Appendix I | 第70-71页 |
| Appendix II | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix III | 第72页 |
