| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第8-12页 |
| ·Pinter’s Menace Theme | 第9-11页 |
| ·Pinter’s Language | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research Purpose and Structure of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第14-24页 |
| ·Conversation Analysis | 第14-16页 |
| ·Grice’s Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第16-20页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle & Maxims | 第16-18页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Role of Context in Calculating Conversational Implicatures | 第19-20页 |
| ·Turn-taking | 第20-24页 |
| ·Turn-taking System | 第21-22页 |
| ·Turn-taking and Power | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第24-35页 |
| ·Fictional Data | 第24-27页 |
| ·Validity of Fictional Dialogues as Data for Linguistic Analysis | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Caretaker Selected as Data | 第25-27页 |
| ·Data Collection and Process for the Analysis of Conversational Implicatures | 第27-28页 |
| ·Data Collection and Process for the Analysis of Turn-taking | 第28-34页 |
| ·Selection of Scenes in the Play | 第28页 |
| ·Identification of Power Strategies | 第28-31页 |
| ·Coding, Quantification and Analysis of the Data | 第31-34页 |
| ·Analytical Approaches | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis of Conversational Implicatures | 第35-47页 |
| ·Verbal Violence | 第35-40页 |
| ·Mick’s Verbal Attack on Davies | 第35-38页 |
| ·Davies’Verbal Attack on Aston | 第38-40页 |
| ·Refusal of Explicit Communication | 第40-47页 |
| ·Self-Concealment | 第40-44页 |
| ·The concealment of identity | 第40-42页 |
| ·The concealment of motivation | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Danger of Self-revelation | 第44-47页 |
| ·The Brothers’self-revelation used by Davies for intrusion | 第44-45页 |
| ·Davies’self-revelation used by the brothers for self-protection | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis of Turn-taking | 第47-57页 |
| ·Analysis of Each Confrontation Scene | 第47-54页 |
| ·Analysis of the First Confrontation Scene | 第48-50页 |
| ·Analysis of the Second Confrontation Scene | 第50-51页 |
| ·Analysis of the Third Confrontation Scene | 第51-52页 |
| ·Analysis of the Final Confrontation Scene | 第52-54页 |
| ·A Comparison of the Four Confrontation Scenes | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第59-60页 |
| References | 第60-63页 |
| Appendix A The Coding of The Four Confrontation Scenes | 第63-76页 |
| Appendix B 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表论文的目录 | 第76页 |
