摘要
The originally proposed by Grice in light of violation of Cooperative Principle,to analyze the characters’ utterances based on the data collected from a masterpiece-A Dream of Red Mansions.The result reals that characters,in order to imply their underlying meaning or intentions such as saving-face,self-protection or flattery,deliberately flouting the four maxim-the maxim of Quality,the maxim of Quantity,the maxim of Relevance and the maxim of Manners and then from that it can be inferred the characters’ characteristics,the degree of relationship and their emotions in particular situation.
