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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Significance
1.2.1 Social co-existence
1.2.2 Polite Speech to harmony
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Study of polite speeches
2.2 Study of Interrogatives
2.3 Study of Tag questions
2.3.1 The syntactic study of the tag questions
2.3.2 The semantic study of the tag questions
2.3.3 The pragmatic study of tag questions
Chapter 3 Features of Tag questions
3.1 Syntactic Dimensions of Tag questions in English
3.2 Pragmatic Dimensions of Tag questions in English
Chapter 4 Tag questions and politeness
4.1 Politeness and politeness strategies
4.1.1 Grice's Cooperative Principle(CP)
4.1.2 Leech's theory of Principle(PP)
4.1.3 Brown and Levinson's Face Theory
4.2 Politeness Strategies in relations to Tag questions
4.3 Tag questions as a realization of politeness strategy
4.3.1 Seeking agreement
4.3.2 Eliciting topics
4.3.3 Echoing the statement
4.3.4 Seeking Confirmation
4.3.5 Intensifying humor
4.3.6 Softening confrontation
Chapter 5 Research Analysis
5.1 Quantity
5.2 Distribution
5.3 Accounts
5.4 Tag questions by Chinese TV anchors
5.4.1 Quantity
5.4.2 Research Findings from Dialogue
5.4.3 Deterrence from mother tongue
5.4.4 Disfluency in using tags
5.4.5 Discount in teaching environment
5.4.6 Equal teaching on both English proficiency and English pragmatic competence
Chapter 6 Conclusions
6.1 Limitations of the paper
6.2 Suggestions for further research
Bibliography
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