| Acknowledgments | 第1-6页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Interpretation of Vocatives and Research Methods | 第13-23页 |
| 1．1 Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| 1．1．1 The Definition of Vocatives | 第13-15页 |
| 1．1．2 The Types of Vocatives | 第15-17页 |
| 1．1．3 The Forms of Vocatives | 第17-18页 |
| 1．2 Research Method: Experimental and Contrastive Study | 第18-21页 |
| 1．2．1 Literary Source | 第19页 |
| 1．2．2 Questionnaires | 第19-20页 |
| 1．2．3 Participant Observation | 第20-21页 |
| 1．2．4 Contrastive Study | 第21页 |
| 1．3 Summary | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Two Vocatives as Linguistic Routines of Politeness | 第23-32页 |
| 2．1 Introduction | 第23-24页 |
| 2．2 Vocatives as a Part of Greetings or Partings | 第24页 |
| 2．3 The Role of Vocative in Greetings and Partings | 第24-31页 |
| 2．3．1 As Adjacency Pairs | 第24-26页 |
| 2．3．2 As Politeness Strategies | 第26-29页 |
| 2．3．3 As Politeness Intensifiers | 第29-31页 |
| 2．4 Summary | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter Three The Functional Study of Vocatives in English and Chinese | 第32-60页 |
| 3．1 Introduction | 第32页 |
| 3．2 The Social Function of Vocatives | 第32-43页 |
| 3．2．1 Vocatives and Social Relationship Between Speakers | 第32-38页 |
| 3．2．1．1 The Style of Vocatives | 第33-36页 |
| 3．2．1．2 The Forms of Vocatives | 第36-38页 |
| 3．2．2 Shift of Vocatives and Shift of Social Relationship | 第38-40页 |
| 3．2．3 Social Change and Vocative Change | 第40-43页 |
| 3．3 The Pragmatic Function of Vocatives | 第43-55页 |
| 3．3．1 As Illocutionary Acts | 第43-52页 |
| 3．3．2 As Conversational Implicatures | 第52-55页 |
| 3．4 The Stylistic Function of Vocatives | 第55-59页 |
| 3．4．1 On the Lexical Level | 第55-56页 |
| 3．4．2 On the Textual Level | 第56-59页 |
| 3．5 Summary | 第59-60页 |
| Chapter Four Vocatives and Culture in a Language | 第60-67页 |
| 4．1 Introduction | 第60页 |
| 4．2 The Relationship Between Language and Culture | 第60-61页 |
| 4．3 Complexity of Chinese Vocatives and Simplicity of English Vocatives | 第61-66页 |
| 4．3．1 Kinship Address Terms | 第61-64页 |
| 4．3．2 Fictive Kin Nomenclature Address Terms | 第64页 |
| 4．3．3 Terms of Address for Courtesy and Modesty | 第64-65页 |
| 4．3．4 Generalization of Certain Address Terms | 第65-66页 |
| 4．4 Summary | 第66-67页 |
| Chapter Five Vocatives in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning | 第67-75页 |
| 5．1 Introduction | 第67页 |
| 5．2 Chinese Students' Use of English Vocatives | 第67-73页 |
| 5．2．1 The Interference of Chinese | 第68-71页 |
| 5．2．2 Lack of Certain English Knowledge | 第71-73页 |
| 5．3 Suggestions to Foreign Language Teaching | 第73-74页 |
| 5．4 Summary | 第74-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-81页 |
| Appendix | 第81-87页 |
