A Study of Conversational Implicature Used In Twilight Movie 2008
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 7
Abstract
Every conversation in daily communication has purpose to convey meaning, some utterances has additional conveyed meaning which is called implicature. This present study aims to find out the types of conversational implicature in the Twilight movie. The classification of the utterances is based on Yule‟s typology of implicature, but in this study, only Generalized, Particularized and Scalar implicature are discussed. The design of this research is a descriptive qualitative research. The data are taken from the utterances from Twilight movie transcript which contain the three types of conversational implicature. The result shows that Generalized implicature (28.46%), Particularized implicature (46.15%) and Scalar implicature (24.61%). Utterances of Particularized implicature are the most used by the character of the movie, since they have more additional meaning than what are said.
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Evi Fitri Aglina
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