Table of Contents
摘要
Abstract
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Conversation and characterization
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Thesis structure
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Alice Munro,a master ofthe contemporary short story
2.2 The study of conversation in literary texts
2.3 Overview of conversation analysis
Chapter Three Theoretical Framework and Methodology
3.1 Turn-taking system
3.2 Conversational structure
3.3 Topic shift
Chapter Four Analyzing Characters through Conversation Analysis
4.1 Characterization through the use of the turn-taking system
4.1.1 Strategies of turn-allocation
4.1.2 Manipulating the turn span and the turn distribution
4.1.3 Making interruption
4.2 Characterization through the manipulation of the conversational structure
4.2.1 Production of the basic adjacency pairs
4.2.2 The sequential organization
4.2.3 Making repair
4.3 Characterization through topic shift strategies
4.3.1 Making topic shifts
4.3.2 Maintaining the current topic
Chapter Five Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
声明