| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-18页 |
| ·Motivation for the Research | 第13-15页 |
| ·Research Goals | 第15-16页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW: A SEMIOTIC THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第18-32页 |
| ·Saussurean Semiotics | 第19-21页 |
| ·Peircean Semiotics | 第21-26页 |
| ·Juri Lotman and the Concept of Semiosphere | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Concept of Code | 第28-29页 |
| ·Implications | 第29-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE ANALYSIS OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION FROM THE SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE | 第32-46页 |
| ·The Concept of Culture from the Perspective of Semiotics | 第32-36页 |
| ·The definition of culture | 第32-35页 |
| ·The semiotic feature of culture | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Concept of Communication from the Perspective of Semiotics | 第36-39页 |
| ·The definition of communication | 第36-37页 |
| ·The forms of communication | 第37-38页 |
| ·The semiotic feature of communication | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Models of Communication | 第39-46页 |
| ·Aristotle’s Model of Communication | 第41-42页 |
| ·Shannon-Weaver’s Mathematical Model of Communication | 第42-43页 |
| ·Schramm’s Model of Communication | 第43页 |
| ·Jakobson’s Communication Model | 第43-44页 |
| ·H. G. Alexander’s Model of Human Communication | 第44-46页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ESTABLISHING A SEMIOTIC MODEL OF ICC | 第46-58页 |
| ·The Concept of Intercultural Communication | 第46-50页 |
| ·The definition of intercultural communication | 第46-47页 |
| ·The main ingredients of intercultural communication | 第47-50页 |
| ·Analysis of the Role of Elements from the Perspective of Semiotics | 第50-55页 |
| ·The role of source concept and target concept | 第50-51页 |
| ·The role of encoding and decoding | 第51页 |
| ·The role of message | 第51-53页 |
| ·The role of context | 第53-54页 |
| ·The role of culture | 第54-55页 |
| ·A Semiotic Model of Intercultural Communication | 第55-58页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL | 第58-69页 |
| ·The Components of the Model | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Process of ICC Revealed by the Model | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism Revealed in This Model | 第60-69页 |
| ·The influence of the relation between the semiospheres | 第60-62页 |
| ·The influence of the representamen | 第62-64页 |
| ·The influence of the interpretant | 第64-66页 |
| ·The interrelation between the effects | 第66-69页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第69-72页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Study | 第70-72页 |
| REFERENCES | 第72-78页 |
