文档介绍：AN ANALYSIS OF SONG JIANG’S UTTERANCES
AND THEIR TRANSLATION BY SHAPIRO FROM
THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONVERSATIONAL
IMPLICATURE THEORY

By
Chen Fangfang

Under the supervision of
Prof. Zhu Yue

A thesis
Submitted in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies
Anhui University

April 2009
Acknowledgements
I would like to avail myself of this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to
all those who have offered me help in my pursuit of the master's degree and in the
thesis writing.
First of all, my thanks are particularly extended to Professor Zhu Yue, my
supervisor, who has provided me with ments and enlightening
suggestions in the whole writing process. I am deeply grateful to him for his
incredible patience and meticulous instruction.
Likewise, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the teachers of the
School of Foreign Studies of Anhui University, especially to Professor Zhou Fangzhu,
Professor Zhu Xiaomei, Professor Zhang Ming, Professor Chen Zhengfa, Professor
Hua Quankun, Professor Hong Zengliu, Doctor Hu Jian, Doctor Yang Ling and
Doctor Zhang Hongxia, whose wonderful lectures have broadened my horizon and
enriched my knowledge in the past three years.
Last but not least, I am greatly indebted to my parents for their tacit
understanding and financial support in years of schooling in spite of difficulties and
my fellow students who give me help generously during the process of my thesis
writing.

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Abstract
This thesis concentrates on the analysis of the figure utterances in the translated
literary work Shuihu Zhuan by Sidney Shapiro from the perspective of Grice‟s
Conversational Implicature (CI) Theory.
Conversational implicature, as one of the most important theories in pragmatics,
since its first being put forward in the 1960s by the America