| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·Background and Purpose of the Study | 第10-12页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第12页 |
| ·Thesis Organization | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-21页 |
| ·Review of the Studies on the Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第14-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Cooperative Principle | 第14-15页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Conversational Implicature | 第15-17页 |
| ·Review of the Studies on A Dream of Red Mansions | 第17-21页 |
| ·Previous studies on the novel | 第17-19页 |
| ·Previous studies on the Character’s Utterances in the Novel | 第19页 |
| ·Previous studies on the maids | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework of the Study | 第21-31页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and Its Maxims | 第21-23页 |
| ·Flouting the Maxims | 第23-26页 |
| ·Flouting the maxim of Quality | 第23-24页 |
| ·Flouting the maxim of Quantity | 第24-25页 |
| ·Flouting the maxim of Relevance | 第25-26页 |
| ·Flouting the maxim of Manner | 第26页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature and its Inferential Mechanisms | 第26-29页 |
| ·Generation of Conversational Implicature | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Inferential Mechanisms of Conversational Implicature | 第28-29页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis of the Maid’s Utterances Based on the Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第31-59页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Flouting the Maxim of Quality | 第31-38页 |
| ·Irony | 第31-34页 |
| ·Misrepresentation | 第34-36页 |
| ·Rhetorical Question | 第36-38页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Flouting the Maxim of Quantity | 第38-44页 |
| ·Understatement | 第38-40页 |
| ·Overstatement | 第40-44页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Flouting the Maxim of Relevance | 第44-50页 |
| ·By giving hints | 第44-47页 |
| ·By giving associate clues | 第47-50页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Flouting the Maxim of Manner | 第50-58页 |
| ·Obscurity | 第50-52页 |
| ·Ambiguity | 第52-53页 |
| ·Redundancy | 第53-56页 |
| ·Disorder | 第56-58页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions | 第59-61页 |
| ·Findings | 第59-60页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for future studies | 第60-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61-62页 |
| References | 第62-64页 |
| Appendix | 第64-75页 |
| Research Results Obtained During the Study for Master Degree | 第75-76页 |
