| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter 1 The Analytic Framework of the Paper | 第14-36页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第16-22页 |
| ·Austin’s Speech Act Theory | 第16-18页 |
| ·Searle's Development of Speech Act Theory | 第18-22页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle and the Notion of Implicatures | 第22-27页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle and Four Maxims | 第23页 |
| ·Violation of the Maxims and the Conversational Implicatures | 第23-27页 |
| ·The Politeness Principle and the Concept of Face | 第27-36页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principle | 第28-29页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Face Theory | 第29-33页 |
| ·The Parameters of Politeness | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter 2 Henry James and The Portrait of a Lady | 第36-44页 |
| ·Henry James, the Novelist | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Plot of The Portrait of a Lady | 第37-38页 |
| ·A Constellation of Main Characters | 第38-41页 |
| ·Conversations as a Means of Characterization | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter 3 A Pragmatic Analysis of the Conversations in The Portrait of a Lady | 第44-69页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Speech Act Theory | 第44-51页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Lord Warburton | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Caspar | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Osmond | 第49-51页 |
| ·From the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle | 第51-59页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Lord Warburton | 第51-55页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Caspar | 第55-57页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Osmond | 第57-59页 |
| ·From the Perspective of the Politeness Principle | 第59-69页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Lord Warburton | 第60-64页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Caspar | 第64-67页 |
| ·The Conversation between Isabel and Osmond | 第67-69页 |
| Conclusions | 第69-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-74页 |
| Appendix | 第74-91页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第91页 |
