| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| ·Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Why Dubliners? | 第13页 |
| ·Why a pragmatic approach? | 第13-16页 |
| ·Aims and objectives | 第16页 |
| ·Structure of this thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第18-35页 |
| ·The concerns of pragmatics | 第18-20页 |
| ·Empirical studies of pragmastylistic approach in the analysis of literature | 第20-26页 |
| ·Empirical studies of pragmatics in literature abroad | 第20-25页 |
| ·Applicability of pragmatics in literature | 第20-21页 |
| ·Applications of pragmatics to literature | 第21-25页 |
| ·Applications of pragmatics to literature in China | 第25-26页 |
| ·Analytical framework of the present study | 第26-32页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Politeness Principle | 第30-32页 |
| ·Some information about Dubliners | 第32-33页 |
| ·Previous studies on Dubliners | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter 3 Dialogues in Dubliners | 第35-45页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35页 |
| ·Dialogic nature of literature | 第35-39页 |
| ·Literature as discourse | 第35-38页 |
| ·Literature as dialogue | 第38-39页 |
| ·Survey of the dialogic relationships in Dubliners | 第39-41页 |
| ·Dialogic relationship between the narrator and the characters | 第39-40页 |
| ·Dialogic relationship between the writer and the reader | 第40-41页 |
| ·Some distinctions in literary discourse | 第41-45页 |
| ·The author and the narrator | 第41-42页 |
| ·The author and the reader | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter 4 Pragmastylistic Analysis of Dubliners | 第45-69页 |
| ·Introduction | 第45页 |
| ·Pragmastylistic analysis of dialogue in Dubliners | 第45-69页 |
| ·Violation of the maxims in the dialogue between fictional characters | 第45-52页 |
| ·Violation of the maxim of Quantity | 第45-47页 |
| ·Violation of the maxim of Quality | 第47-48页 |
| ·Violation of the maxim of Relation | 第48-50页 |
| ·Violation of the Politeness Principle | 第50-52页 |
| ·Violation of the maxims in the dialogue between the author and the reader | 第52-65页 |
| ·Violation of the maxims in the dialogue between the narrator and the characters | 第65-69页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第70-71页 |
| ·Suggestions for further research | 第71-72页 |
| References | 第72-80页 |
