| Abstract: | Mark Twain is one of the greatest writers in the world. His works are full of humor and satire with vivid conversations and brilliant and trenchant portrayals of those characters. This paper takes his classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an example to analyze the conversational implicature from the perspective of Herbert Paul Grice's famous Cooperative Principle. Through the analysis, we can see that linguistic study can help us to study literary works deeply and it is necessary for us to study the conversational implicature systematically. |
