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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research questions
1.2 Significance of the study
1.3 Organization of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Definition of office talk
2.2 Linguistic studies of institutional talk
2.3 Relevant studies of office talk in China and abroad
2.4 Critical comments on previous studies
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework: Conversation Analysis
3.1 Turn-taking mechanism
3.1.1 Turn distribution
3.1.2 Control of topics
3.1.3 Turn length
3.1.4 Turn type
3.2 Adjacency pair
3.3 Repair apparatus
3.4 Opening and closing system
Chapter 4 Research Design
4.1 Data collection
4.2 Research procedure
4.3 Research methods
Chapter 5 Data Analysis
5.1 Linguistic features of office talk between government officials
5.1.1 Linguistic features from the perspective of adjacency pair system
5.1.2 Linguistic features from the perspective of repair apparatus
5.1.3 Linguistic features from the perspective of opening and closing system
5.2 The characterization analysis of the protagonist Jack Bauer by turn-taking mechanism
5.2.1 An analysis of the conversations between Jack Bauer and his supervisors
5.2.2 An analysis of the conversations between Jack Bauer and his coworkers
Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Major findings
6.2 Limitations of the study
6.3 Suggestions for future research
References
Appendix
Acknowledgements
