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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter2 A Review of Previous Approaches to Silence
Chapter3 Turn-silence and Conversational Discourse
Chapter Four An Account of Turn Silence from the Perspective of Cognitive Pragmatics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 A general survey of relevance theory
4.3 Context and contextual effects
4.4 Mutual knowledge and mutual manifestation
4.5 Turn silence's informative intention and communicative intention
4.6 Turn silence's relevance and contextual effects
4.7 Function of turn silence: keeping the channel of communication open
4.8 Cultural differences of turn silence between East and West
4.9 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography