| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-4页 |
| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第4-6页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第6-7页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第7-11页 |
| CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION | 第11-18页 |
| 1．1 Origins and aim of the research | 第11-15页 |
| 1．2 Method of the research | 第15-16页 |
| 1．3 Design of the dissertation | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO: THE STATE OF THE ART OF THE STUDIES | 第18-43页 |
| 2．0 Introduction | 第18页 |
| 2．1 Theoretical perspectives | 第18-23页 |
| 2．2 Empirical studies | 第23-37页 |
| 2．3 Explanatory models | 第37-43页 |
| 2．3．1 Power-based （dominance） model | 第38-39页 |
| 2．3．2 The ”two cultures” （difference） model | 第39-40页 |
| 2．3．3 Dominance & difference model | 第40-43页 |
| CHAPTER THREE: THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第43-69页 |
| 3．0 Introduction | 第43页 |
| 3．1 Definition of interruption | 第43-62页 |
| 3．1．1 Two classical identifications | 第43-47页 |
| 3．1．2 Completion of the turn | 第47-57页 |
| 3．1．3 Our definition | 第57-58页 |
| 3．1．4 Clark's model of Conversation Analysis | 第58-62页 |
| 3．2 Structures of interruption | 第62-63页 |
| 3．3 Strategies of interruption | 第63-66页 |
| 3．4 A study of interruption in relation to gender--issues to be investigated | 第66-69页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR: METHODOLOGY | 第69-86页 |
| 4．0 Introduction | 第69页 |
| 4．1 Background to the corpus approach | 第69-71页 |
| 4．2 Introduction of the selected corpus---LLC | 第71-79页 |
| 4．3 Tagging the corpus | 第79-84页 |
| 4．3．1 Tagsets---coding and annotation schemes | 第79-82页 |
| 4．3．2 Tagging steps | 第82-84页 |
| 4．4 Concordancing the corpus | 第84-86页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE: RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS | 第86-110页 |
| 5．0 Introduction | 第86-87页 |
| 5．1 Statistical procedures | 第87-89页 |
| 5．2 Interrupting structures in relation to gender | 第89-98页 |
| 5．2．1 Male and female in the same-sex interruption---SMMFF | 第89-92页 |
| 5．2．2 Male and female in the different-sex interruptions---SMFFM | 第92-94页 |
| 5．2．3 Male in the same-sex and different-sex interruptions---SMMMF | 第94-96页 |
| 5．2．4 Female in the same-sex and different-sex interruptions----SFFFM | 第96-98页 |
| 5．3 Interrupting strategies in relation to gender | 第98-106页 |
| 5．3．1 Male and female in the same-sex interruptions----MMFF | 第98-100页 |
| 5．3．2 Male and female in the different-sex interruptions----MFFM | 第100-103页 |
| 5．3．3 Male in the same-sex and different-sex interruptions----MMMF | 第103-104页 |
| 5．3．4 Female in the same-sex and different-sex interruptions----FFFM | 第104-106页 |
| 5．4 Tentative conclusions | 第106-110页 |
| CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUDING REMARKS | 第110-115页 |
| 6．1 Significance of the research | 第110-111页 |
| 6．2 Difficult issues tackled in the research | 第111页 |
| 6．3 Implications for further research | 第111-115页 |
| 6．3．1 The data base of the corpora | 第111-113页 |
| 6．3．2 Other variables beyond the gender factors | 第113-115页 |
| NOTES | 第115-116页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第116-125页 |
