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Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter I Introduction
1.1 Court Conciliation in China: An Overview
1.1.1 Definition
1.1.2 Development
1.1.3 Research Focuses
1.2 The Discourse Information Approach to Persuasion in Court
Conciliation
1.2.1 The Pervasiveness of Persuasion
1.2.2 The Importance of Discourse Information
1.3 Research Methodology
1.3.1 Research Questions
1.3.2 Data Collection
1.3.3 Data Analysis
1.4 Outline of the Book
Chapter 2 Persuasion: Essence of Court Conciliation
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Studies on CC
2.2.1 Legal Perspective
2.2.2 Economic Perspective
2.2.3 Psychological Perspective
2.2.4 Linguistic Perspective
2.3 Studies on Persuasion
2.3.1 Traditional Rhetorical Approach
2.3.2 Contemporary Social Scientific Approach
2.4 Persuasion in Court Conciliation
2.4.1 Previous Definions of Persuasion
2.4.2 Working Definition of Persuasion
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Discourse Information: Major Means of
Persuasion in Court Conciliation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Discourse Information
3.2.1 An Overview of the DIT
3.2.2 Information Knots
3.2.3 Information Sharing Categories
3.2.4 Applications
3.3 The Discourse-Information-Centric Model of Persuasion
(DICMP)
3.3.1 Relevant Persuasion Studies
3.3.2 The DICMP
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 Features of Discourse Information in Persuasion
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Factual discourse information: finding of facts and
responsibilities
4.2.1 Basis for Determining Civil Liability
4.2.2 Clarification of Current Situations
4.2.3 Reminding Parties about Undesirable Results
4.3 Attitudinal Discourse Information: Inquiry of Attitudes and
Schemes
4.3.1 Forms of Presentation
4.3.2 Ways of Combination
4.3.3 Levels of Development
4.4 Procedural Discourse Information: Observance of Law.
4.4.1 Offering Legal Basis
4.4.2 Regulating pace and Controlling Order
4.4.3 Drawing Conclusions
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Factors Influencing Persuasion in CC
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Social Situations
5.2.1 Settings
5.2.2 Social Roles
5.2.3 Social Relations Between Participants
5.3 Subjective Communicative Situations
5.3.1 Communicative Roles
5.3.2 Intentions and Goals
5.3.3 Knowledge
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6 Realization of Persuasion in CC
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Assessment of the Realization of Persuasion
6.2.1 Cognitive Responses as the Indicators
6.2.2 Parties' Cognitive Responses in CC
6.3 Means of Realization
6.3.1 Involvement of Discourse Information
6.3.2 Presentation of Discourse Information
6.3.3 Exchange Structures of Discourse Information
6.4 Effects of the Realization of Persuasion
6.4.1 Changing Parties' Cognition
6.4.2 Changing Parties' Attitudes
6.4.3 Changing Parties' Behavior
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Summary of the Present Study
7.3 Implications, Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research.
7.3.1 Implications
7.3.2 Limitations
7.3.3 Suggestions for Further Research
References
Appendix I General Information of the Core Dataset
Appendix II Transcription Conventions
