| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| I. Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| II. Privacy and intercultural communication | 第11-19页 |
| ·Culture | 第11-13页 |
| ·Communication | 第13-14页 |
| ·Intercultural communication | 第14-15页 |
| ·Privacy | 第15-19页 |
| ·Privacy in intercultural communication | 第15-16页 |
| ·An overview of study on privacy | 第16-19页 |
| III. Communication failures and privacy | 第19-34页 |
| ·Potential obstacles to intercultural communication | 第19-26页 |
| ·Perception | 第20-23页 |
| ·Verbal factors | 第23-24页 |
| ·Nonverbal factors | 第24-25页 |
| ·Level of knowing and accepting cultural differences | 第25-26页 |
| ·Communication failures caused by different privacy | 第26-27页 |
| ·Causes behind different privacy | 第27-34页 |
| ·Collectivism and individualism | 第28-30页 |
| ·High and low context cultures | 第30-32页 |
| ·Agriculture and industry cultures | 第32-33页 |
| ·Influences of globalization | 第33-34页 |
| IV. Verbal Contrastive analysis on Chinese and American privacy | 第34-43页 |
| ·Privacy reflected in language | 第34-38页 |
| ·Privacy and conventional sayings | 第35-36页 |
| ·Privacy and euphemisms | 第36-38页 |
| ·Privacy and euphemisms about economic status | 第36-37页 |
| ·Privacy and euphemisms about "old age" | 第37-38页 |
| ·Privacy and euphemisms about sex, marriage and pregnancy | 第38页 |
| ·Privacy reflected in conversation topics | 第38-43页 |
| V. Nonverbal Contrastive analysis on Chinese and American Privacy | 第43-60页 |
| ·Privacy and territoriality | 第43-50页 |
| ·Reflected in home territory | 第44-45页 |
| ·Reflected in office territory | 第45页 |
| ·Reflected in object territory | 第45-48页 |
| ·Reflected in personal information territory | 第48-50页 |
| ·Privacy and space | 第50-54页 |
| ·Privacy and fixed-feature space | 第51-52页 |
| ·Privacy and semi-fixed feature space | 第52-53页 |
| ·Privacy and informal space | 第53-54页 |
| ·Privacy and distance | 第54-60页 |
| ·Privacy and queuing | 第55-56页 |
| ·Privacy and crowding | 第56-58页 |
| ·Privacy and touching | 第58-60页 |
| VI. Implications and conclusion | 第60-63页 |
| ·Implications | 第60-61页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-68页 |
