Abstract
The TV series Downton Abbey has received huge popularity with audiences around the world since it was broadcasted at the first time. The series tell the story of the family inheritance disputes in the Grantham, which reflect the normal life of the upper nobility and servant under the hierarchy in the British. The language characteristics in the drama have important research value. While most researches on Downton Abbey pay more attention to the language and translation. Few have done research on the implicit beauty of the conversation from the cultural view. Therefore, it is feasible and necessary to explore the implicit beauty in TVseries Downton Abbey.
As a vital category in aesthetics, the implicit beauty has many outstanding characteristics. It not only embodies the people's aesthetic ideal, but also reflects people’s social value in a specific epoch. This paper has interpreted the conversational implicature in the TVseries Downton Abbey, and find the implicit beauty from the culture view, which provided reference value for audience to analyze its implicit beauty in Downton Abbey.
Keywords: Downton Abbey the implicit beauty
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1. Conversational Implicature 3
2.Analyzingthe implicit beauty from the utterances in Downton Abbey 4
3. Analyzing the social value embodied in Downton Abbey 7
4. Conclusion 8
References 9
