| ABSTRACT | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第8-13页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第13-16页 |
| ·Research Background | 第13页 |
| ·Research Questions and the Significance of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| ·Framework of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two TRADITIONAL PRAGMATIC APPROACHES TO IMPLICATURE | 第16-32页 |
| ·Grice and CP | 第16-21页 |
| ·Different views of implicatures | 第16-17页 |
| ·CP and its maxims | 第17-19页 |
| ·Properties of implicature | 第19页 |
| ·Implicature generating models | 第19-20页 |
| ·Remaining problems | 第20-21页 |
| ·Horn's Q-and R-principle and Implicature | 第21-25页 |
| ·Division of labor | 第21-22页 |
| ·R- and Q- principles | 第22-24页 |
| ·Three heuristics of Levinson's | 第24-25页 |
| ·RT Approach to Implicature | 第25-32页 |
| Chapter Three A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF IMPLICATURE IN LIGHT OF GAME THEORY | 第32-58页 |
| ·The Basic Ideas of Game Theory:Selfish and Rational | 第32-33页 |
| ·Description of Games | 第33-35页 |
| ·Games and Solutions | 第35-38页 |
| ·Typical games | 第35-37页 |
| ·Solutions | 第37-38页 |
| ·Game Theoretic Linguistics | 第38-39页 |
| ·Correspondence between Games and Conversations | 第39-41页 |
| ·Game Theoretic Implicatures | 第41-50页 |
| ·The focus of game theoretic account of pragmatics | 第41-43页 |
| ·Van Rooij's and Blutner's Model:Game interpretation of implicatures | 第43-50页 |
| ·Strong version of Bi-OT | 第43-45页 |
| ·Weak version of Bi-OT | 第45-50页 |
| ·Parikh's Model of Implicature | 第50-58页 |
| ·A description of Parikh's model | 第51-53页 |
| ·Parikh's game theoretic account of implicature | 第53-58页 |
| Chapter Four APPLICATION OF GAME THEORY IN INTERPRETING IMPLICATURE | 第58-66页 |
| ·Game Theoretic Account of Scalar Implicatures | 第58-60页 |
| ·Game Theoretic Account of Quantity Implicatures | 第60-63页 |
| ·Particularized Implicatures in Light of Game Theory | 第63-66页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第66-71页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第66-67页 |
| ·The Problems of This Research | 第67-69页 |
| ·Problems for Further Research | 第69-71页 |
| Work cited | 第71-75页 |
