| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-7页 |
| CONTENTS | 第7-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第8-17页 |
| ·LITERATURE REVIEWS | 第8-15页 |
| ·THE SCOPE AND DESIGN OF THIS THESIS | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO GRICE'S THEORY OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS | 第17-43页 |
| ·GRICE'S THEORY OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE | 第17-32页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17-20页 |
| ·Cooperative principle & conversational maxims | 第20-21页 |
| ·Generalized & particularized conversational implicature | 第21-29页 |
| ·Features of conversational implicature | 第29-32页 |
| ·LEECH'S POLITENESS PRINCIPLE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE CIT | 第32-35页 |
| ·POST-GRICEAN DEVELOPMENTS | 第35-43页 |
| ·Horn's Q- and R- Principles | 第35-36页 |
| ·Levinson's Q-, I- and M-Principles | 第36-37页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第37-43页 |
| CHAPTER THREE CONVERSATION IN THE NOVEL | 第43-56页 |
| ·LANGUAGE AND THE FICTIONAL WORLD | 第43-48页 |
| ·Language and realism | 第43-44页 |
| ·Context and the fictional world | 第44-48页 |
| ·DISCOURSE SITUATION | 第48-49页 |
| ·CONVERSATION IN THE NOVEL | 第49-56页 |
| ·'Conversation' between characters | 第49-52页 |
| ·Conversation between authors and readers | 第52-56页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE IN MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 第56-72页 |
| ·DETECTIVE STORIES | 第56-59页 |
| ·Introduction | 第56-58页 |
| ·Murder on the Orient Express | 第58-59页 |
| ·CONVERSATION BETWEEN CHARACTERS | 第59-69页 |
| ·'CONVERSATION' BETWEEN AUTHOR AND READER | 第69-71页 |
| ·CONCLUSION | 第71-72页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第72-74页 |
| References | 第74-76页 |
