| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| General Description | 第11-13页 |
| Thesis Organization | 第13-14页 |
| Data Collection | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-21页 |
| ·About Ch’ien Chung-Shu | 第15页 |
| ·A Survey of Previous Studies on Fortress Besieged | 第15-21页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第21-35页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction | 第21-23页 |
| ·Grice’s Conversational Implicature | 第23-26页 |
| ·Non-observance of CP | 第23-24页 |
| ·Ways of Not Observing Maxims | 第24-25页 |
| ·Classification of Conversational Implicature | 第25页 |
| ·The Role of the Context | 第25-26页 |
| ·Politeness Principle | 第26-31页 |
| ·Leech’s Politeness Principle | 第26-27页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson’s Off-record Politeness Strategies | 第27-31页 |
| ·Face Theory | 第31-33页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory | 第31-32页 |
| ·Face Concern in Chinese context | 第32-33页 |
| ·Leech’s Irony and Banter Principles | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Case Analysis: The Interpretation of Conversational Implicature in Character Utterances | 第35-51页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Produced by Violation of the Quality Maxim | 第35-41页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of politeness | 第35-38页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of the speaker’s own face | 第38-39页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of banter | 第39-41页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Produced by Violation of the Quantity Maxim | 第41-43页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of politeness | 第41页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of the speaker’s own face | 第41-43页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of banter | 第43页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Produced by Violation of the Manner Maxim | 第43-46页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of politeness | 第43-45页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of the speaker’s own face | 第45-46页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of banter | 第46页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Produced by Violation of the Relation Maxim | 第46-50页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of politeness | 第46-47页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of the speaker’s own face | 第47-48页 |
| ·Conversational implicature generated for the sake of banter | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Four A Case Study on the Function of Conversational Implicature in Character Utterances | 第51-67页 |
| ·Reflection of the Characters’Personalities | 第51-61页 |
| ·Different Characters with Different Personalities | 第52-57页 |
| ·The Same Character with Different Personalities | 第57-61页 |
| ·Reflection of Social Phenomena | 第61-63页 |
| ·The Prevalence of Officialism | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Ubiquity of Political Intrigues | 第62-63页 |
| ·Indication of the Writer’s Aesthetic View | 第63-64页 |
| ·Satire on Fetishism and Parody | 第63-64页 |
| ·Satire on Studying Abroad | 第64页 |
| ·Creation of Suspension on Readers | 第64-67页 |
| Conclusion | 第67-69页 |
| Summary | 第67页 |
| Significance of the Study | 第67-68页 |
| Limitations and Suggestions | 第68-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72-73页 |
| Publications | 第73页 |
