We don’t like coffee—we love it/He isn’t meeting a woman this evening—heis meeting his wife是一种标记性的否定,有别于普通的否定句,我们称之为“含意否定”。本文从新格赖斯会话含意的角度来分析这种否定句,研究其构成、分类、特点、同普通否定句的区别、语用功能。 We do not like coffee-we love it / He is not meeting a woman this evening-heis meeting his wife is a mark-based negation that is different from ordinary negative sentences, which we call “implied negation.” This article analyzes the negative sentences from the perspective of New Grice’s conversational meaning, and studies its composition, classification, features, differences with common negative sentences and pragmatic functions.