ABSTRACT
The paper first introduces Gricean conversational implicature theory, including five properties of conversational implicature, development of the cooperative principle, contents of the four maxims and application of the CP. It then explores examination proposition, test orientation and difficult points of the conversational listening comprehension in CET-4&6. It also elaborates items violating four maxims respectively and summarizes some characteristics of these items to show the significance of the CP in solving the problems in conversaional listening comprehension in CET-4&6. It finally analyzes the typical items in conversational listening comprehension in CET-4&6 and offers some solutions and skills in order to help test takers to achieve the goal of understanding the implicature and improving listening comprehension.
Key words：conversational implicature; cooperative principle; four maxims; conversational listening comprehension; solutions
Contents
1．Introduction 1
2. Gricean conversational implicature theory 2
2.1 Five properties of conversational implicature 3
2.2 Introduction and development of cooperative principle 5
2.3 Contents of cooperative principle 7
2.4 Application of cooperative principle 9
3. A brief introduction of listening comprehension in CET-4&6 10
3.1 Examination proposition and test orientation 10
3.2 Conversational listening comprehension 11
4. Analysis of conversational listening comprehension with a case study on CET-4&6 15
4.1 Classification 15
4.2 Solutions 16
5．Conclusion 23
Acknowledgements 24
References 25
