摘　要

小说中的对话对体现人物言语行为和性格特点起着关键性的作用。简•奥斯汀的经典小说《傲慢与偏见》便是这样的作品。在小说中，人物的日常交际往往是通过对话实现的，所以研究这部作品中人物的对话十分必要。本文试图用 Grice 的会话含义理论解析这部小说中人物对白的暗含之意，从而进一步推导出小说中各色人物的性格，同时也为文学作品的研究提供一种新的研究方向。简•奥斯汀的语言机智、幽默，又充满讽刺。小说人物在交际对话过程中或运用遵守或违反合作原则以产生丰富的语用含义。英国语言哲学家 Grice 的会话含义理论能够将会话中的深层含义或者说是暗含之意通过语用推理揭示出来，使读者能够明白说话者说话意图中所隐含之意。一方面，在推人物对白隐含之意时我们可以更好了解人物鲜活的性格及欣赏作家的风格，另一方面也可验证语用学理论运用在文学作品文本分析中的有效性和意义。

关键词：会话含义； 合作原则； 《傲慢与偏见》

Abstract

It is the distinctive speech acts and the vivid characters of the roles that play a key role in novels. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice belongs to this kind. The roles in this novel achieve mutual communicative aims through their dialogues. So it is necessary to study the fictional dialogues in this novel. This thesis attempts to analyze the implied meaning of the fictional dialogues in this classic novel by Grice’s Conversational Implicature Theory. Through pragmatic inference this thesis can not only deduce the different characters of the roles in the novel and the language style of the author but also provide a new research approach for literature works. Jane Austen’s language is witty, humorous and full of irony. The characters in this novel generate abundant pragmatic meaning through observing or flouting conversational maxims in the process of communication. On one hand we can get a better understanding of the vivid characters of the roles and appreciation of the style of the writer through the process of pragmatic inference; on the other hand this approach can prove the validity and significance of taking pragmatic theory into literature works.

Key words: conversational implicature; Cooperative Principle; Pride and Prejudice

1 Introduction
1.1 General description
Jane Austen’s charm has been lasting 200 years, a lot of people like her, her works compare with many contemporary famous writers have more vitality. Pride and Prejudice is her most representative and remarkable novel. Austen has a high position in English literature. Linguists have a big interest in the dialogues in Pride and Prejudice. Dr. Chapman said that she is one of the greatest, one of the most accurate writers of dialogue of her own or any age. These conversations play an important role in the whole story’s development. My thesis intends to analyze the conversations in details with Cooperative Principle and conventional implicature to get a better understanding. My thesis may bring some practical significance by helping readers better understand this literature work.