| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-23页 |
| 1.1 The History Development of Crime Fiction | 第15-16页 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies on Agatha Christie and Her Works | 第16-21页 |
| 1.2.1 A Brief Introduction to Death on the Nile and its Author | 第16-19页 |
| 1.2.2 Agatha Christie’s Writing Features | 第19-21页 |
| 1.3 Interaction between CP and PP | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Backgrounds | 第23-33页 |
| 2.1 Grice’s Theory of Conversational Implicature | 第23-27页 |
| 2.1.1 The Violation of CP and Production of CI | 第23-24页 |
| 2.1.2 Generalized and Particularized Conversational Implicature | 第24-26页 |
| 2.1.3 The Features of Conversational Implicature | 第26-27页 |
| 2.2 Post-Gricean Developments | 第27-29页 |
| 2.2.1 Horn’s Q- and R- Principles | 第27页 |
| 2.2.2 Levinson’s Q-, I- and M-Principles | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2.3 Relevance Theory | 第28-29页 |
| 2.3 Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory | 第29-33页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第33-35页 |
| 3.1 Subjects and Data Collection | 第33页 |
| 3.2 Instruments | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis of Conversational Implicature in Death on the Nile | 第35-61页 |
| 4.1 Performing Face-Threatening-Acts Bald-on-record without Redressive Action | 第35-37页 |
| 4.2 Performing Face-Threatening-Acts with Redressive Action | 第37-39页 |
| 4.2.1 Positive Politeness Strategy | 第37-38页 |
| 4.2.2 Negative Politeness Strategy | 第38-39页 |
| 4.3 Performing Face-Threatening-Acts Off-record | 第39-58页 |
| 4.3.1 Conversational Implicature Generated by Violating the Maxim of Manner | 第39-46页 |
| 4.3.1.1 Displacing Hearer | 第39-42页 |
| 4.3.1.2 Overgeneralization | 第42-43页 |
| 4.3.1.3 Being Vague and Ambiguous | 第43-45页 |
| 4.3.1.4 Being Incomplete | 第45-46页 |
| 4.3.2 Conversational Implicature Generated by Violating of the Maxim of Quantity | 第46-52页 |
| 4.3.2.1 Being More Informative | 第46-50页 |
| 4.3.2.2 Being Less Informative | 第50-52页 |
| 4.3.3 Conversational Implicature Generated by Violating the Maxim of Quality | 第52-56页 |
| 4.3.3.1 Using Metaphor | 第52-55页 |
| 4.3.3.2 Using Irony | 第55-56页 |
| 4.3.4 Conversational Implicature Generated by Violating the Maxim of Relevance | 第56-58页 |
| 4.3.4.1 Being Irrelevant | 第56-57页 |
| 4.3.4.2 Giving Hints | 第57-58页 |
| 4.4 The Distribution of Violating CP | 第58-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-66页 |
