CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................i
Abstract .............................................................................................................................ii
摘 要 ............................................................................................................................... iii
Chapter One Introduction .............................................................................................. 1
§1.1 General Description ........................................................................................... 1
§1.2 Thesis Organization ........................................................................................... 2
§1.3 Data Collection and Analyzing Method .............................................................3
§1.4 Aim .....................................................................................................................3
Chapter Two Theoretical Background ........................................................................... 4
§ 2.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................4
§ 2.2 Grice’s Theory of Conversational Implicature ..................................................5
§ 2.2.1 Cooperative Principle and its Maxims ........................................................... 6
§ 2.2.2 Conversational Implicatures .......................................................................... 8
§ 2.2.3 Features of Conversational Implicatures ....................................................... 8
§ 2.3 Neo-Gricean Development ............................................................................. 10
§ 2.3.1 Horn’s Q- and R-principles .......................................................................... 10
§ 2.3.2 Levinson’s Contribution to the Neo-Gricean Development .........................11
Chapter Three About Television Talk Shows ...............................................................14
§ 3.1 Previous Studies of Talk Shows ......................................................................14
§ 3.1.1 Media Studies of Talk Shows .......................................................................14
§ 3.1.2 Linguistic Studies of Talk Shows .................................................................14
§ 3.2 Definition and Characteristics of Talk Shows .................................................15
§ 3.3 Classification of Talk Shows ...........................................................................16
§ 3.4 Chinese Talk Shows ........................................................................................ 17
§ 3.4.1 Development of Chinese Talk Shows .......................................................... 17
§ 3.4.2 Introduction to ‘Chinese Tonight Show with Liu Yiwei’ .............................19
Chapter Four Conversational Implicatures in Chinese Talk Shows ................................21
§ 4.1 Overview .........................................................................................................21
§ 4.2 CI Produced by Violation of Maxims ............................................................. 22
§ 4.2.1 C I Produced by Violation of Maxim of Quality ......................................... 22
§ 4.2.2 CI Produced by Violation of Maxim of Quantity ........................................ 24