The Preliminary Study Of The Context Of The Implicature

This dissertation aims to reveal the essence, structural laws and essential features of the context which restricts or influences the expression and comprehension of the implicature by studying the contextual elements appearing in every link of the process of verbal communication caused by implicature .It consists of five parts. Part One: Introduction. Firstly, it gives the definition of the implicature and context in the dissertation. Secondly, it carries on synthesis analysis and description on the advanced achievements in the fields of traditional rhetoric, grammar and modern pragmatics. Meanwhile, it puts forwards its exploration perspectives and scopes. That is, it's rooted in realizing every concrete step in the process of the whole communication and comprehension. Finally, it concludes the value and significance of selecting this perspective and the conclusion of this dissertation.Second Part: It focuses on the contextual elements which limits the expression of the implicature. It puts forward the four steps which composes the expression process of the implicature, That is, the formation of the expression motive, the establishment of the communication topic, the choice of the indirect guiding pattern, the selection of the language form. Meanwhile, it explains the important concept such as internal cause topic, situational topic and retroactive topic and so on. By investigating and analysing contextual elements which have exerted influence on the four links of the expressive process it conclude the structural laws of the contextual elements in the implicature expression press.Third Part: It focuses on the contextual elements which limits the comprehension of the implicature. It divides the comprehension process into three concrete steps on the grounds of theory of conversational implicature and Cooperative Principle. The first step is to comprehend the literal meaning of conversation. The second is to judge whether conversation contains the implicature on the grounds of Cooperative Principle; The third is to infer the speaker's authentic communicative intension By investigating and analysing the contextual elements which exert some influences on the aboved three steps, it concludes the structural laws of the context in thecomprehension process of the implicature.Part four: The essential characters of the context. It induces and concludes five essential characters of the context on the basis of the analysis in Part Two and Part Three. That is, the derivation of the context from the verbal communication process, the unstability of the context, the entirety of the context, the reflection of the context, the reconstruction of the context.Part Five: Conclusion. It draws the conclusion of the definition, structural laws and essential features of the context from the analysis in the aboved four parts. Meamwhile it puts forward some problems which need further study.There are some innovations in this dissertation. Firstly, it prudes into the problem of context by combining context with implicature on the basis of their dialectic and united relations. Secondly, the selective study research perspective in this dissertation is significant not only to synthetically investigate the structural laws and essential characters of context, but also to dynamically analyses the contextual elements in every steps of the communication process.