| Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| 0．1 Important Status of Appropriateness | 第14页 |
| 0．2 Purposes and Significance of the Present Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| 0．3 Scope of the Present Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| 0．4 Limitations of the Present Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter One Verbal Behavior Defined | 第17-28页 |
| 1．1 J． L． Austin' s Speech Act Theory--the Nascence of Speech Act Theory | 第17-21页 |
| 1．1．1 Constatives and Performatives | 第17-19页 |
| 1．1．2 Explicit Performatives and Primary Performatives | 第19-20页 |
| 1．1．3 Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act and Perlocutionary Act | 第20-21页 |
| 1．2 John Searle's Speech Act Theory | 第21-26页 |
| 1．2．1 John Searle's Classification of Speech Acts | 第22-23页 |
| 1．2．2 Felicity Conditions of Speech Acts | 第23-25页 |
| 1．2．3 Other Classifications | 第25-26页 |
| 1．3 Verbal Behavior Defined in This Thesis | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Two Different Understandings of ”Appropriateness” of Verbal Behavior | 第28-41页 |
| 2．1 Expatiations on Appropriateness | 第28-34页 |
| 2．1．1 Tact Maxim in the Principle of Pragmatics | 第28-30页 |
| 2．1．2 Appropriateness--the Principle of Rhetoric Proposed by Wang Xijie | 第30-34页 |
| 2．1．2．1 Proposal of Appropriateness Principle and the Definition of Appropriateness | 第31-32页 |
| 2．1．2．2 Macro-appropriateness and Micro-appropriateness | 第32-34页 |
| 2．2 Various Interpretations of ”Appropriateness” | 第34-41页 |
| 2．2．1 General Lexical Interpretation of Appropriateness | 第34页 |
| 2．2．2 Appropriateness and Style | 第34-35页 |
| 2．2．3 Appropriateness and Politeness | 第35-36页 |
| 2．2．4 Appropriateness and Effectiveness | 第36-39页 |
| 2．2．5 Appropriateness and Morality | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Comments on the Different Perspectives | 第41-47页 |
| 3．1 Views on General Lexical Interpretation of Appropriateness | 第41页 |
| 3．2 Views on Stylistic Interpretation of Appropriateness | 第41页 |
| 3．3 Views on Interpretation of Appropriateness as Politeness | 第41-44页 |
| 3．4 Views on Equating Appropriateness to Effectiveness | 第44-45页 |
| 3．5 Views on Moral Interpretation of Appropriateness | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Four Proposed Interpretation of Appropriateness and its Factors | 第47-56页 |
| 4．1 Origins of ”Appropriateness” | 第47-49页 |
| 4．1．1 Interpretations of ”Appropriateness” by Ancient Works and Philosophers of China | 第47-48页 |
| 4．1．2 Interpretation of ”Appropriateness” by Aristotle in his Rhetoric | 第48-49页 |
| 4．2 Proposed Notion of Appropriateness and Its Components | 第49-54页 |
| 4．2．1 Communicative Purpose | 第49-50页 |
| 4．2．2 Context | 第50-53页 |
| 4．2．2．1 Speaker and Hearer | 第51-53页 |
| 4．2．2．2 Culture and Other Factors | 第53页 |
| 4．2．3 Degree of Appropriateness | 第53-54页 |
| 4．3 Definition of Appropriateness and its Characteristics | 第54-56页 |
| 4．3．1 Definition | 第54-55页 |
| 4．3．2 Characteristics of the Definition | 第55-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-60页 |
