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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Topic and Significance of the Study
1.2 Methodology and Objectives of the Research
1.3 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Review on Related Theories and Notions
2.1 A General Survey on News Discourse
2.1.1 Notion of News
2.1.2 Newsworthiness
2.1.3 News Discourse and Conversation
2.2 Classic Gricean Theory of Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implicature
2.2.1 Cooperative Principle
2.2.2 Conversational Implicature
2.2.3 A Reply to the Doubts about Gricean Theory
2.3 Review on Dynamic Context
2.3.1 Survey of Traditional Context
2.3.2 Dynamic Context in News Discourse
2.3.3 Functions of Context in Pragmatic Inference
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Case Study
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 Dynamic Context in the Sample News Discourses
3.3 Analysis on the Sample News Discourses via Gricean Theory
3.3.1 The Flouting of Quantity Maxim
3.3.2 The Flouting of Quality Maxim
3.3.3 The Solutions to a Clash
3.3.4 The Flouting of Relation Maxim
3.3.5 The Flouting of Manner Maxim
3.4 Implicature of Each Sample News Discourses
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Conclusion
4.1 Findings of the Study
4.2 Limitations of the Study
Bibliography
Appendix
Sample Discourse 1 (from the New York Times)
Sample Discourse 2 (from the New York Times)
Sampple Discourse 3 (from the Associated Press)
Sample Discourse 4 (from ABC news)
Sample Discourse 5 (From China Daily)
Sample Discourse 6 (From China Daily)
