| 创新性声明 | 第1页 |
| 关于论文使用授权的说明 | 第2-3页 |
| 摘要 | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第9-29页 |
| ·Related Theoretical Background | 第9-14页 |
| ·Studies of Speech Act | 第9-11页 |
| ·Studies of Face and Politeness | 第11-14页 |
| ·Studies of the Speech Act of Compliments | 第14-29页 |
| ·some basic concepts of the speech act of compliments | 第15-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Compliment Responses | 第17-26页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies of Speech Act of Compliments | 第26-27页 |
| ·Limitations of previous studies | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Three Studies of Culture and Gender Differences | 第29-41页 |
| ·Studies of Culture | 第29-38页 |
| ·The characteristics of culture | 第29页 |
| ·The structure of culture | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Relationship between Language and Culture | 第30-33页 |
| ·Chinese-Western Cultural Differences | 第33-38页 |
| ·studies of gender differences | 第38-41页 |
| ·Language and gender | 第38-40页 |
| ·Gender-based differences of compliment responses | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Four Data Collocation and Analysis | 第41-73页 |
| ·Coding Scheme | 第41-45页 |
| ·Comparison of Compliment Responses from the Aspect of Culture | 第45-61页 |
| ·Compliment Responses in American English Data | 第48-57页 |
| ·Compliment Responses in Chinese Data | 第57-59页 |
| ·Comparison of Compliment Responses in American English and | 第59-61页 |
| ·Comparison of Compliment Responses from the Aspect of Gender | 第61-66页 |
| ·Distribution of main strategies | 第62-64页 |
| ·Status | 第64-66页 |
| ·Factors that influenced the English and Chinese compliment response | 第66-73页 |
| ·Culture factors | 第66-71页 |
| ·Gender factors | 第71-73页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第73-74页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第73-74页 |
| Acknowledgment | 第74-75页 |
| References | 第75-79页 |
| Appendix A 攻读学位期间发表论文目录 | 第79-80页 |
| Appendix B Discourse Completion Test (DCT) | 第80-85页 |
| Appendix C Background Information Survey | 第85页 |
