ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABSTRACT
摘要
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Object of the Research
1.2 The Rationale of the Research
1.3 Recent Studies on Assessments
1.4 The Objective of the Present Research
1.5 Research Methodology and Data Collection
1.6 Outline of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Review of the Relevant Literature
2.1 Introduction
2.2.Articles about assessment sequence
2.2.1 Advantages
2.2.2 Disadvantages
2.3 The assessment in school teaching
2.4 The assessment in clinlcal interaction
2.4.1 Advantages
2.4.2 Disadvantages
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Brief Review of CA’s History
3.3 The Definitions of Assessment
3.4 Adjacency Pair
3.5 Pre-expansion and Post-expansion
3.6 Preference and Dispreference
3.7 Summary
Chapter 4 Assessments in Daily Conversations
4.1 Agreeing Assessment
4.1.1 Different Forms of Agreement
4.1.2 Preference for Agreement
4.2 Disagreeing Assessment
4.2.1 Different Forms of Disagreement
4.2.2 Dispreference for disagreement
4.3 Summary
Chapter 5 Assessments in Institutional Talks
5.1 Assessments in Commercial activities
5.1.1 The information-collecting phase
5.1.2 The recommendation phase
5.1.3 The Formality of the Conversation
5.1.4 The Lexical Choice in Institutional Talks
5.2 Assessments in the Media Interviews
5.2.1 The Three-step Pattern in the Media Interviews
5.2.2 The Minimal Post-expansion
5.3 Summary
Chapter Six the Differences between the Assessments in Daily Conversations and Institutional Talks
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Differences between assessments in daily conversations and institutional talks
6.2.1 Person-oriented VS Task-oriented
6.2.2 Difference in Lexical Choice
6.2.3 Difference in Sequential Organization
6.3 Summary
Chapter Seven Summary
7.1 Summary of the thesis
7.2 The major findings of the thesis
7.3 Limitation and Suggestion
Bibliography
APPENDIX
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