| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Research Background | 第10-11页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundations | 第11-13页 |
| ·Research Objective and Significance | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of Business English | 第16-24页 |
| ·Definition of Business English | 第16-17页 |
| ·Characteristics of Business English | 第17-22页 |
| ·Lexical Level | 第17-18页 |
| ·Syntactic Level | 第18-20页 |
| ·Stylistic Level | 第20-22页 |
| ·Characteristics and Requirements of Business Interpretation | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Pragmatic Failures in Business Interpretation | 第24-41页 |
| ·Definition of Pragmatics and Pragmatic Failures | 第24-26页 |
| ·Definition of Pragmatics | 第24页 |
| ·Definition of Pragmatic Failures | 第24-26页 |
| ·Pragmatic Competence and Pragmatic Failures | 第26-28页 |
| ·Categories of Pragmatic Failures | 第28-41页 |
| ·Pragmatic Failures Caused by Redundancy of Information | 第28-31页 |
| ·Pragmatic Failures Caused by Vagueness of Interpretation | 第31-33页 |
| ·Pragmatic Failures Derived from Culturally-loaded Words | 第33-37页 |
| ·Pragmatic Failures Derived from Failing to Observe the Social and Cultural Customs | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Four Application of Pragmatic Principles to Prevent Pragmatic Failures | 第41-57页 |
| ·Cooperative Principles | 第41-50页 |
| ·Four Maxims | 第41-45页 |
| ·Handling Conversational Implicature | 第45-50页 |
| ·Context | 第46-49页 |
| ·Shared Knowledge | 第49-50页 |
| ·Politeness Principles | 第50-57页 |
| ·Six Maxims | 第50-52页 |
| ·Application of Politeness Principles | 第52-57页 |
| Chapter Five Tentative Solutions to Pragmatic Failures in Business Interpretation | 第57-69页 |
| ·Requirements of Interpreters to Improve Pragmatic Competence | 第57-60页 |
| ·Linguistic Competence | 第57页 |
| ·Cross-cultural Awareness | 第57-58页 |
| ·Professional Knowledge | 第58-59页 |
| ·Quick Response | 第59-60页 |
| ·Tentative Business Interpretation Strategies | 第60-69页 |
| ·Pragmatic Equivalent Interpretation | 第60-62页 |
| ·Handling Fuzzy Information | 第62-64页 |
| ·Substitution and Addition | 第64-66页 |
| ·Sentence Structure Adjustment | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| ·Findings of the Study | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitation of the Study | 第70-71页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第71-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-75页 |
