| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter one Literature Review | 第9-13页 |
| ·An Overview of the Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第9页 |
| ·An Overview of the Pragmatic approach to literature | 第9-11页 |
| ·Criticism Review on Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Conversational Implicature Theory | 第13-28页 |
| ·Grice’s Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第13-16页 |
| ·The Notion of Implicature | 第13-16页 |
| ·Grice’s Theory of Meaning-nn | 第16页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle and Conversational Maxims | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle | 第16-17页 |
| ·Conversational Maxims | 第17-20页 |
| ·Flouting of the Conversational Maxims | 第20-24页 |
| ·F louting of the Quantity Maxim | 第21-22页 |
| ·F louting of the Quality Maxim | 第22页 |
| ·F louting of the Relation Maxim | 第22-23页 |
| ·F louting of the Manner Maxim | 第23-24页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第24-28页 |
| ·C lassification of Implicature | 第24-25页 |
| ·T he Inference of Conversational Implicature | 第25-26页 |
| ·F eatures of Conversational Implicature | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three Studies of Conversational Implicature in An Ideal Husband | 第28-59页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of An Ideal Husband’s Plot | 第28-30页 |
| ·Implicature Generated by Violating the Quantity Maxim | 第30-37页 |
| ·Understatement | 第30-33页 |
| ·Overstatement | 第33-37页 |
| ·Implicature Generated by Violating the Quality Maxim | 第37-41页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第37-39页 |
| ·Paradox | 第39-41页 |
| ·Implicature Generated by Violating the Relation Maxim | 第41-45页 |
| ·Giving Hint | 第42-44页 |
| ·Giving Associated Clues | 第44-45页 |
| ·Implicature Generated by Violating the Manner Maxim | 第45-56页 |
| ·Being Ambiguous or Vague | 第45-47页 |
| ·Being Obscure | 第47-50页 |
| ·Failure to be Brief or Succinct | 第50-54页 |
| ·Failure to be Orderly | 第54-56页 |
| ·Clashes of conversational maxims | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| ·General Summary | 第59-60页 |
| ·Findings and Limitations | 第60-62页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第62-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-66页 |
| Publications | 第66-67页 |
