A Derivative Study Of The Conversational Implicature In The Tea Trilogy

The Trilogy of Tea Lovers is the representative work of Xufeng Wang and one of the winners of the fifth Mao Dun Literature Awards. It depicts the ups and downs of the main character of five generations in the Hang’s family. Placing character creation into the background of modern Chinese history and traditional Chinese tea culture, it provides sufficient conversations for the study of particularized conversational implicature. Based on the cooperative principle and the relevance theory, this thesis researches the calculability of particularized conversational implicature in the conversations of The Trilogy of Tea Lovers, probing into the different approaches of generating particularized conversational implicature and analyzing their limitations.