This article mainly describes the semantic direction type of the adiectival indrect attribute and the restriction factor for consitituting adjectival indirect attribute.

Indirect Pragmatic Negation and Its Conventions of Use;

They are Halliday s cohesion theory,Grice s theory of Conversational implicature and Searle s theory of indirect speech act.

Indirect use of language has lent itself to considerable discussion in the indirect speech act theory, though limited to cross-sentential multifunctionality under the name of indirectness.

Direct and Indirect Speech-A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Speech;

On the basis of a pragmatic analysis of changing an indirect request from direct speech into indirect speech,the author thinks that traditional grammatical rules are restricted by some contextual factors,which should be given priority to in the change.

This paper tries to expound the merits and the demerits of direct and indirect speeches in the process of information conveyance from senders to receivers,thereby illustrating the role of the free indirect speech in bridging the information gap.

This paper analyzes the four factors of the use of indirect language in a joke from the pragmatic point of view: context,rhetoric,the reader s background knowledge and logical reasoning ability.

In one of his later works La prose du monde, Merleau-Ponty also focuses on the creation of new meanings and the expression-moment of indirect language.