1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

between the two world wars, the development of british and americanclassical detective novels reached a climax and a “golden age” emerged. agathachristie, known as the queen of detective novels, was one of the mostrepresentative writers of this period. she created more than 80 novels, 100short stories, and 17 plays. her detective works were welcomed by readers allover the world, translated into 103 languages and published in more than 100countries. their sales and popularity are second only to the bible andshakespeare’s works.

however, the research on detective stories is only in the status of amarginal discipline. according to hong yu, a scholar of foreign literatureresearch, “professional writers seldom write in such literary styles, and theythink that such novels are not elegant and lack theoretical research in thisarea.” this paper states that and thenthere were none has created a large number of characters with realistic meanings on the basisof fictional realism; by setting up story suspense and delaying murders, it hasopened up space for exchanges between authors and readers, readers and texts; ithighlights the character and creates a dramatic situation. therefore, agatha’snovels are both popular and literary in terms of thematic content, socialconnotation, and other minor content, as well as the character art form,storyline, and scene description.

some studies chooseto analyze the artistic features like song lingling’s on the artistic characteristics of agatha christie's detective novels whichexplores the profound social significance, open writing space, and dramaticnarrative traits of her works from three aspects: character, story structure,and scene, in order to support her creation’s excellence and transcendence.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

And Then There Were None, a detective fiction by Agatha Christiedepicts ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of othersbut have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an islandand are all mysteriously murdered one by one. This paper reveals from pragmaticsperspective of speech act and conversational implicature the evil in humannature in this ten evil world. By looking up all kinds of information andreading the previous literature, analysis the linguistic features of the novel.And body part of this paper will consist five parts: abstract, literaturereview, the explanation of detective novel and the theory of conversationalimplicature, examples and conclusion. So the paper should give an elaborate andexhaustive research on the given topic. According to the difficulties I wouldencounter in the writing process, such as insufficient sources, I will try mybest to figure them out by asking my tutor or search all kinds of informationthat may help on the Internet.

3. 研究计划与安排

before 15th, january settlement of the title

before 25th, february submission of the outline

before 25th, april submission of the first draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

• [1]alexander,m.g. cognitive-linguistic manipulation andpersuasion in agatha christie[d]. glasgow: university of glasgow, 2006.

  [2]agathachristie. and then there were none[m].newyork: dodd. mead and company, 1940.

  [3]nida, e.a.amp;taber, charles. the theory and practiceof translation[m]. leiden: e.j.brill, 1969.

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