| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·A General Description of the Thesis | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Significance and Aim of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| ·Thesis Structure | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-26页 |
| ·The Nature of Conflict | 第15-18页 |
| ·Different Versions of Definitions | 第15-17页 |
| ·Conflicts in Drama | 第17-18页 |
| ·Relevant Review of Conflict Talk | 第18-21页 |
| ·Introduction of Conflict Talk | 第18-19页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Conflict Talk | 第19-21页 |
| ·Summary | 第21页 |
| ·Criticism Review on Long Day’s Journey into Night | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Conflicts in Long Day’s Journey into Night | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第26-32页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第26-27页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential Communication | 第27-31页 |
| ·Relevance and Utterance | 第27-29页 |
| ·Intentions in the Ostensive-inferential Process | 第29页 |
| ·Mutual Manifestness and Cognition | 第29-30页 |
| ·Context and Other Factors Related to Relevance | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis of Conflict Talk in the Viewpoint of Relevance Theory | 第32-55页 |
| ·Conflict Talk Avoided by Being Relevant | 第32-33页 |
| ·Conflict Talk and Informative Intention | 第33-36页 |
| ·Conflict Talk and Communicative Intention | 第36-39页 |
| ·Unintentional Failure | 第37-38页 |
| ·Intentional Misunderstanding | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39页 |
| ·Conflict Talk and Pragmatic Relevance | 第39-45页 |
| ·Lack of Speech Act Relevance and Conflict Talk | 第40-41页 |
| ·Lack of Conversational Demand Relevance and Conflict Talk | 第41-42页 |
| ·Lack of Context Relevance and Conflict Talk | 第42-43页 |
| ·Lack of Conversational Theme Relevance and Conflict Talk | 第43-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45页 |
| ·Conflict Talk and Mutual Manifestness | 第45-52页 |
| ·Failure in Overlapping Cognitive Environment | 第46-47页 |
| ·Pretending to Be Irrelevant in Cognitive Environment | 第47-48页 |
| ·Irrelevance between Speech and Cognition | 第48-51页 |
| ·Comprehensive Analysis of Mutual Manifestness | 第51-52页 |
| ·Relevance of Past Experience | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第55-57页 |
| ·Limitations | 第57页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第57-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61页 |
