| INTRODUCTION | 第1-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE LITERATURE REVIEW | 第12-26页 |
| ·INTRODUCING PRAGMATIC FAILURE | 第12-15页 |
| ·EXISTING APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PRAGMATIC FAILURE | 第15-23页 |
| ·Studies from the Perspective of Cross-cultural Communication | 第15-17页 |
| ·Studies from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics | 第17-19页 |
| ·Studies from the Perspective of Second Language Acquisition | 第19-21页 |
| ·Studies from the Perspective of Foreign Language Teaching | 第21-23页 |
| ·REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE ADAPTATION APPROACH | 第23-26页 |
| ·Problems with the Existing Approaches | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Value of the Adaptation Approach | 第25-26页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第26-31页 |
| ·A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ADAPTATION THEORY | 第26-28页 |
| ·THE NOTION OF COMMUNICATIVE CONTEXT | 第28-31页 |
| CHAPTER THREE AN ADAPTATION-THEORETIC STUDY OF PRAGMATIC FAILURE | 第31-65页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC FAILURE AND THE LANGUAGE USERS | 第31-34页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC FAILURE AND THE LANGUAGE USER’S MENTAL WORLD | 第34-38页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC FAILURE AND THE LANGUAGE USER’S SOCIAL WORLD | 第38-59页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC FAILURE AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD | 第59-65页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR SUGGESTED MEASURES TO HELP PRAGMATIC FAILURES | 第65-75页 |
| ·MEASURES TO BE TAKEN BY LANGUAGE USERS | 第65-67页 |
| ·MEASURES TO BE TAKEN IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING | 第67-75页 |
| ·Cultivating the Students’Cultural Awareness through Teaching | 第67-70页 |
| ·Improving Testing Methods | 第70-71页 |
| ·Developing the Students’Pragmatic Competence | 第71-75页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第75-78页 |
| REFERENCES | 第78-82页 |
| 摘要 | 第82-85页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第85-89页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第89-90页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第90页 |
