| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第9-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-15页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12-13页 |
| ·Need for the Study | 第13页 |
| ·The Overall Structure of This Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第15-23页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Jane Austen and her Emma | 第15-17页 |
| ·Combination of Linguistics and Literary Studies | 第17-18页 |
| ·Criticism Review on Jane Austen and Emma | 第18-21页 |
| ·Summary | 第21-23页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第23-40页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第23-24页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle | 第24-27页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle | 第24-25页 |
| ·The nature of the maxims | 第25页 |
| ·Violation of Cooperative Principle and production of Conversational Implicature | 第25-26页 |
| ·Flouting the Maxims | 第26-27页 |
| ·Politeness Principle | 第27-40页 |
| ·Leech's Politeness Principle | 第27-32页 |
| ·PP as rescue of CP | 第28页 |
| ·Maxims of the Politeness Principle | 第28-32页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory | 第32-34页 |
| ·The concept of face | 第32页 |
| ·Negative and positive politeness | 第32-33页 |
| ·Face-threatening acts(FTAs) | 第33-34页 |
| ·Off-record strategies | 第34-40页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR CASE ANALYSIS:CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE IN EMMA | 第40-77页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Violation of the Quality Maxim | 第40-51页 |
| ·Being ironic | 第40-45页 |
| ·Using metaphors | 第45-47页 |
| ·Using Rhetorical Questions | 第47-51页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Produced by Violation of the Quantity Maxim | 第51-54页 |
| ·Understatement and overstatement | 第52-54页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Violation of the Relevance Maxim | 第54-61页 |
| ·Giving hints | 第54-58页 |
| ·Giving association clues | 第58-61页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Generated by Violation of the Manner Maxim | 第61-73页 |
| ·Being ambiguous or vague | 第61-65页 |
| ·Over-generalization | 第65-68页 |
| ·Displacing hearer | 第68-71页 |
| ·Being incomplete and using ellipsis | 第71-73页 |
| ·General Findings | 第73-77页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第77-80页 |
| ·Summary | 第77-79页 |
| ·Implications | 第79页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第79-80页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第80-82页 |
