| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Research background | 第11页 |
| ·Research Objectives and Significance | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research methodology and data collection | 第12页 |
| ·The structure of the thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Background and Literature Review | 第13-24页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13页 |
| ·Pragmatic Theories | 第13-22页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory(SAT) | 第13-16页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle(CP) | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Ostensive-inferential Model | 第20-22页 |
| ·Luo Guanzhong and the Romance of Three kingdoms | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Speech Acts in the Romance of Three Kingdoms | 第24-33页 |
| ·Introduction | 第24页 |
| ·Dichotomy | 第24-26页 |
| ·The analysis of illocutionary acts | 第26-32页 |
| ·The Assertives/Representatives | 第26-27页 |
| ·The directives | 第27-28页 |
| ·Commissives | 第28-29页 |
| ·Expressives | 第29-31页 |
| ·Declaration | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Conversational Implicatures in the Romance of Three Kingdoms | 第33-45页 |
| ·Introduction | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Generation of Conversational Implicature | 第34页 |
| ·Characteristics of Conversational Implicature | 第34-36页 |
| ·Cancellability(or Defeasibility) | 第35页 |
| ·Non-detachability | 第35-36页 |
| ·Calculability | 第36页 |
| ·Non-conventionality | 第36页 |
| ·The Analysis of Non-Standard Implicature | 第36-44页 |
| ·Implicatures Resulting From Flouting Quantity Maxim | 第37-38页 |
| ·A flouting of the first maxim of Quantity Maxim | 第37页 |
| ·A flouting of the second maxim of Quantity | 第37-38页 |
| ·Implicatures Resulting From Flouting Quality Maxim | 第38-42页 |
| ·A flouting of the first maxim of quality maxim | 第38-41页 |
| ·Satire | 第39页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第39-40页 |
| ·Meiosis and Hyperbole | 第40-41页 |
| ·A flout of the second maxim of quality | 第41-42页 |
| ·Implicatures Resulting From Flouting Relevance Maxim | 第42-43页 |
| ·Giving Hints or Clues | 第42-43页 |
| ·Transferring from the Topic | 第43页 |
| ·Implicature Resulting From Flouting Manner Maxim | 第43-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter 5 The Ostensive-Inferential Model in the Romance of Three Kingdoms | 第45-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第45页 |
| ·The Ostensive-inferential Communication | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Ostensive-inferential Communication in the Romance of Three Kingdoms | 第47-48页 |
| ·Informative Intention and Communicative Intention | 第48-50页 |
| ·Definition of informative and communicative intention | 第48-49页 |
| ·Informative and Communicative Intention in the Romance of Three Kingdoms | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| ·A Summary of the study | 第51页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第51-52页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and future research direction | 第52-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-55页 |
| Appendix 1.攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第55页 |
