Part Ⅰ Theoretical Explorations 3
1 The Impasse of Perlocution 3
2 Pragmatics and Rhetoric:A Collaborative Approach to Conversation 35
3 Towards a Multiple-goal Neo-Grice 61
4 Five Ways of Handling a Bedpan:A Tripartite Approach to Workplace Discourse 91
5 Towards a Model of Situated Discourse Analysis 111
6 Towards an Understanding of Workplace Discourse:A Pilot Study for Compiling a Spoken Chinese Corpus of Situated Discourse 147
7 Multimodal Text Analysis:A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Situated Discourse 191
8 An Institutional Anniversary Ceremony as Systemic Behavior in Chinese Context 233
9 Conventions of Language 242
Part Ⅱ With Special Reference to Modern Chinese 291
10 Politeness Phenomena in Modern Chinese 291
11 Doctor-patient Interaction as Goal-directed Discourse in Chinese Sociocultural Context 315
12 Chinese Officialdom(Guan) at Work in Discourse 341
13 Guanxi:Backdoor Practice as Goal-directed Discourse 363
顾曰国主要学术著述 388