| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-12页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第15-23页 |
| ·Grice's theory of conversational implicature | 第15-20页 |
| ·Natural meaning and non-natural meaning | 第15-16页 |
| ·Definition of conversational implicature | 第16-18页 |
| ·Classification of implicatures | 第18-19页 |
| ·Characterizations of conversational implicature | 第19-20页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第20-23页 |
| 3 A Comparative Study on The Two Theories | 第23-54页 |
| ·CP, conversational maxims and two principles of relevance | 第23-33页 |
| ·Grice's CP and maxims | 第23-27页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic inquiry of CP and maxims | 第27-28页 |
| ·Two principles of relevance | 第28-33页 |
| ·What is said/what is implicated and explicature/implicature | 第33-41页 |
| ·Grice's what is said/what is implicated | 第34-37页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic account on explicatures/implicature | 第37-41页 |
| ·Role of context in the two theories | 第41-46页 |
| ·Context in Grice's theory | 第42页 |
| ·Context (contextual assumption, cognitive effect) in RT | 第42-46页 |
| ·Different interpretation on irony | 第46-54页 |
| ·Grice's interpretation on irony | 第46-48页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic inquiry on classical and Grice's account | 第48-49页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic account on irony | 第49-54页 |
| 4 Comment on The Two Theories | 第54-59页 |
| ·On Grice's theory of implicature | 第54-57页 |
| ·On Relevance theory | 第57-59页 |
| 5 Chapter five Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-63页 |
