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英文文摘
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声明
Acknowledgement
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research backgrounds
1.1.1 The emergence of feminist movement and feminism
1.1.2 The development of sociolinguistic research on language and gender
1.2 Research motivations
1.3 Research questions and objectives
1.4 Research originality
1.5 The organization of the present thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Review of the theoretical studies
2.1.1 Style and stylistics
2.1.2 Language and gender
2.1.3 Pragmatic theories
2.2 Retrospect of the previous empirical studies
2.2.1 Achievements of the previous studies
2.2.2 Limitations of the previous studies
2.3 Summary
Chapter Three Research Design and Methodology
3.1 Theoretical framework for this study
3.2 Introduction to the two selected series
3.2.1 Sex and the City
3.2.2 Can't Wait Falling in Love
3.2.3 The characteristics of the two series
3.3 Natural speech and fictional speech
3.4 The collection and transcription of the data
3.5 Data analysis procedures
3.6 Summary
Chapter Four Data Analysis and Discussions
4.1 Data Analysis
4.1.1 Telling stories
4.1.2 Hedging
4.1.3 Question
4.1.4 Repetition
4.1.5 The collaborative floor
4.2 Discussion and Interpretation of the Data
4.2.1 The influences of the history
4.2.2 The influences of the society
4.2.3 The influence of the women's and men's sub-cultures
4.2.4 The psychological factors
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major findings of the present study
5.2 Implications of the present study
5.2.1 Implications on school teaching
5.2.2 Implications on family education
5.2.3 Implications on women studies and women movement
5.2.4 Implications on sociolinguistic studies
5.3 Limitations of this research and suggestions for future studies
Bibliography
Appendix
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