Analysis on Conversational Implicature of Dialogues in Downtown Abbey From the Perspective of Cooperative Principle Abstract The Cooperative Principle (CP) was proposed by H.P.Grice, in which he claimed that the interlocutors should make cooperative efforts in a conversation. The CP comprises four maxims in terms of quantity, quality, relation and manner of the conversation. However, people may occasionally violate the maxims of the Cooperative Principle to convey implicit meanings beyond the literal meaning of their utterance, thus giving rise to the Conversational Implicature (CI), which was also put forward by Grice after the CP. Learning to interpret the Conversational Implicature is very essential for English learners to fully understand the English conversations, as this ability is considered an important part in composing language learner’s pragmatic competence.48902

The British TV program Downtown Abbey, which enjoys particular popularity among Chinese audiences, is a good example of learning source for English learners to get access to an updated and living language corpus. There are a large number of conversations in Downtown Abbey that violate the maxims of CP and bring up correspondent conversational implicatures, hence the thesis will focus on these clips of conversation to analyze how CI is inferred through violating maxims of CP in certain contexts. And the examples will be pided into four categories according to the subsumed maxims of CP. In order to get a better understating of the conversational intentions of the interlocutors, the thesis will also conclude the strategies that are commonly used when speakers convey conversational implicatures, and summarize reasons that interlocutors generate CI by violating the CP from a pragmatic perspective.

Keywords: Conversational Implicature, Cooperative Principle, Violation, Downtown Abbey

合作原则视角下《唐顿庄园》中的会话含义分析

摘要美国学者格赖斯提出了合作原则。在该理论中他强调说，对话的参与双方都应为保证对话的顺利进行予以共同的配合与合作。合作原则包含了四个准则，这四个准则分别对对话的数量、质量、关系以及方式提出了一定的要求。然而，人们在日常的对话中，仍然会出现偶然违反合作原则中的若干准则的情况，从而来传达一些高于字面含义的隐性含义，而这种隐含在字面意思中的含义，后来又被格赖斯定义为会话含义。对于英语学习者来说，学会如何深入了解和诠释英语对话中的会话含义显得尤为重要，而这种能力也被看做是语言学习者所应具备的语用能力中不可或缺的一部分。

近年来，英国的电视剧《唐顿庄园》在中国十分受欢迎。而这部剧对于英语学习者来说，也是非常好的语言学习资源，因为它所提供的是最地道也是最紧随时代潮流的语言表达。《唐顿庄园》一剧中包含有大量为表达会话含义而违反合作原则的例子，而本文将着眼于这些案例，分析在具体的语境下，会话含义是如何通过违反合作原则而产生的。针对这些例子，作者又会根据它们各自所违反的合作原则中对应的准则进行进一步的分类。另外，本文还将从语用学角度，对人们在传达会话含义时所采用的常用策略进行归纳，并且分析总结人们为何会采取违背合作原则的方式来传达会话含义，从而使人们对会话参与者在交谈时的会话意图有更深入的了解。

毕业论文关键词：会话含义；合作原则；违反；唐顿庄园

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Research Background 1

1.2 Research Significance 1

1.3 Research Questions 1

1.4 Outline of the paper