| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstact | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| 1.1 Conversation and characterization | 第8-9页 |
| 1.2 Research questions | 第9-11页 |
| 1.3 Thesis structure | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-19页 |
| 2.1 Alice Munro,a master of the contemporary short story | 第12-14页 |
| 2.2 The study of conversation in literary texts | 第14-16页 |
| 2.3 Overview of conversation analysis | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework and Methodology | 第19-28页 |
| 3.1 Turn-taking system | 第20-22页 |
| 3.2 Conversational structure | 第22-25页 |
| 3.3 Topic shift | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Four Analyzing Characters through Conversation Analysis | 第28-74页 |
| 4.1 Characterization through the use of the turn-taking system | 第28-49页 |
| 4.1.1 Strategies of turn-allocation | 第29-36页 |
| 4.1.2 Manipulating the turn span and the turn distribution | 第36-44页 |
| 4.1.3 Making interruption | 第44-49页 |
| 4.2 Characterization through the manipulation of the conversational structure | 第49-66页 |
| 4.2.1 Production of the basic adjacency pairs | 第49-56页 |
| 4.2.2 The sequential organization | 第56-60页 |
| 4.2.3 Making repair | 第60-66页 |
| 4.3 Characterization through topic shift strategies | 第66-74页 |
| 4.3.1 Making topic shifts | 第67-71页 |
| 4.3.2 Maintaining the current topic | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第74-78页 |
| References | 第78-84页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第84-85页 |
