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Acknowledgements |
4-5 |
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Abstract in Chinese |
5-7 |
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Abstract in English |
7-11 |
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1.Introduction |
11-18 |
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1.1 A historical review of conversational analysis |
11-12 |
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1.2 News interviews |
12-15 |
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1.2.1 Definition of news interview |
12 |
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1.2.2 Features of news interview |
12-13 |
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1.2.3 Researches available on news interview |
13-15 |
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1.3 Case study |
15-18 |
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1.3.1 Motivations on study |
15-16 |
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1.3.2 Language data |
16-17 |
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1.3.3 Research method |
17 |
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1.3.4 Organization |
17-18 |
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2.Communicative Principles |
18-27 |
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2.1 Grice's Cooperative Principle |
18-19 |
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2.2 Flouting the maxims |
19-20 |
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2.3 Leech's Politeness Principle |
20-21 |
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2.4 Brown and Levinson: Face Theory |
21-25 |
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2.4.1 Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness |
21-22 |
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2.4.2 Elaboration on politeness strategies |
22-25 |
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2.5 Relationship between Cooperative Principle and politeness theories |
25-27 |
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3.Researches on Context |
27-30 |
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3.1 Context in Grice's theory |
27 |
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3.2 Traditional views on context |
27-28 |
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3.3 Sperber and Wilson's view of context |
28-30 |
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4.Case Study Analysis |
30-42 |
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4.1 Strategy analysis of Rice's news interview |
30-38 |
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4.1.1 Maxim violation and application of politeness strategies |
30-37 |
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4.1.2 Summary |
37-38 |
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4.2 Strategy analysis of Woods' news interview |
38-42 |
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4.2.1 Maxim violation and application of politeness strategies |
38-41 |
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4.2.2 Summary |
41-42 |
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5.Comparison between the Two News Interviews |
42-52 |
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5.1 Similarities of the two interviews |
42 |
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5.2 Differences of the two interviews |
42-44 |
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5.3 Possible factors contributing to the differences |
44-52 |
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5.3.1 Face-threatening questions or not |
44 |
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5.3.2 Interviewees' identity |
44-45 |
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5.3.3 Targeted audience |
45-52 |
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6.Conclusion |
52-54 |
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6.1 General summary |
52 |
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6.2 Limitations and suggestions for future research |
52-54 |
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Bibliography |
54-56 |
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Appendix |
56-79 |
