From this perspective, this study is primarily concerned with the linguistic strategies applied in the intentional indirect use of language: the speaker intentionally conveys something in saying something different.

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.

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.

Indirect speech,the inconsistency between sentence meanings and utterance meanings,can be categorized into two typical types: metaphor and indirect speech act.

Based on Grice s conversational principle,this paper explores the causes of the phenomenon of indirect speech by analyzing language forms and functions,the literal and actual meanings of words,speech act as well as conversational implicature.

It was a phenomenon of Europeanized grammar,reflected the essential features of indirect language contact.

The author uses those evidences in order to explain the influences of the indirect language contact on Chinese grammar.