| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| ·Background | 第8-9页 |
| ·Main Objectives of the Thesis | 第9页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第11-25页 |
| ·Politeness and Politeness Implicature | 第11-19页 |
| ·Previous studies on politeness | 第11-13页 |
| ·Arguments against the previous views | 第13-14页 |
| ·The notion of politeness implicature | 第14-17页 |
| ·Politeness implicature and speaker intention | 第17-19页 |
| ·A Constituting Model of Politeness Implicature | 第19-25页 |
| ·A Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communication: a new model | 第19-21页 |
| ·Co-constituting politeness implicature | 第21-23页 |
| ·Politeness implicature as an interactional achievement | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design and Data Analysis | 第25-41页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第25页 |
| ·Data Collection and Research Method | 第25-27页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第27-41页 |
| ·Sample 1 Intimate Conversation | 第27-31页 |
| ·Sample 2 Casual Conversation | 第31-34页 |
| ·Sample 3 and 4 formal conversations | 第34-41页 |
| Chapter Four Discussion | 第41-54页 |
| ·The Notion of Politeness Implicature in Chinese Conversations | 第41-44页 |
| ·Politeness implicature as a conjoint achievement by interactant | 第41-42页 |
| ·Relationship between Politeness Implicature and Other Kinds of Implicatures | 第42-44页 |
| ·Contextual Factors of Co-constituting Politeness Implicature in Conversation | 第44-50页 |
| ·Salient conventions and heuristics and expectations | 第45-47页 |
| ·Psychological state of the speaker and hearer | 第47-49页 |
| ·Mutual understanding and mutual constraint | 第49-50页 |
| ·Stylistic Influence on the co-constitution of politeness implicature | 第50-54页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-62页 |
| Appendix | 第62-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72页 |
