| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-12页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·The Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Plot and Main Characters | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Organization of this Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第16-29页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Notion of Cooperative Principle | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Contributions of Cooperative Principle | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Supplements to Cooperative Principle | 第18-20页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第20-26页 |
| ·The Violation of CP and Production of CI | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Features of Conversational Implicature | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Classification of Conversational Implicature | 第24-26页 |
| ·Previous researches on Desperate Housewives | 第26-29页 |
| 3 Inference of Conversational Implicature of Characters' Dialogues | 第29-57页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Created by Violating the Quantity Maxim | 第29-36页 |
| ·Giving Insufficient Information | 第29-30页 |
| ·Giving Excessive Information | 第30-32页 |
| ·Rhetorical Questions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Aposiopesis | 第33-35页 |
| ·Displacing the Hearer | 第35-36页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Created by Violating the Quality Maxim | 第36-46页 |
| ·Telling lies | 第36-37页 |
| ·Hyperbole | 第37-39页 |
| ·Meiosis | 第39-40页 |
| ·Irony | 第40-42页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第42-43页 |
| ·Personification | 第43-44页 |
| ·Paradox | 第44-46页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Created by Violating the Relevance Maxim | 第46-51页 |
| ·Pun | 第46-47页 |
| ·Parody | 第47-48页 |
| ·Giving Hints | 第48-50页 |
| ·Changing topics | 第50-51页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Created by Violating the Manner Maxim | 第51-57页 |
| ·Being Obscure | 第51-52页 |
| ·Being Vague | 第52-53页 |
| ·Being Prolix | 第53-55页 |
| ·Being Disordered | 第55-57页 |
| 4 Reasons for Violating the Cooperative Principle | 第57-62页 |
| ·Out of Politeness | 第57页 |
| ·For Humor | 第57-58页 |
| ·Showing Disapproval | 第58-59页 |
| ·Protecting the Speaker or the listener from Hurt | 第59-60页 |
| ·Other Reasons | 第60-62页 |
| ·Expressing anger | 第60页 |
| ·Relieving tension | 第60-61页 |
| ·Showing comfort | 第61-62页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| ·Summary of the Main Findings | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations of this Thesis | 第63-64页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第64-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-67页 |
