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AN ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE
IN JURASSIC WORLD (2015) MOVIE
A Thesis
Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
The Degree of Strata One
OSI AMELIA
1112026000076
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES
SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
JAKARTA
2016
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ABSTRACT
Osi Amelia,An analysis of Conversational Implicature in Jurassic World (2015)
Movie. Thesis: English Letters Department, Letters and Humanities faculty,State
Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2016.
This research is going to analyze what are the maxim of cooperative principle that are violated (non-observance) in the movie and how does the non-observance maxim occurs in the movie, then what is the meaning of each implicature that have been done by the characters in the movie Jurassic World. This research used a qualitative method that focuses on the conversational implicature based on cooperative principles on the movie. The writer analyses four cooperative principles which are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of manner and maxim of relation in the movie. The data in this uses watch and take notes technique for collecting data.After the writer analyzing Jurassic World movie, the writer finds the conversational rising in this movie because the characters non-observed maxim of the conversation. The maxim of relation and maxim of manner are the most violated on the movie. In addition the writer also finds the existence of the two types of the conversational implicature those are: eight particularized conversational implicature and nine generalized conversational implicature.
Keywords: Conversational Implicature, Generalized ConversationalImplicature,
Particularized ConversationalImplicature.
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my
knowledge and believe, it contains no material previously published or written by
another person nor material which a substantial extend has been accepted for the
award of any other degree or diploma of university or other institute of higher
learning, except where due acknowledgment has been has been made in this text.
Jakarta, September 2016
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In the name of Allah, the most gracious and the most merciful
May peace and blessing of Allah be upon all of us
Alhamdulillahirobbil ‘alamin, All praises be to Allah, king of the king, the
Lord of the world, and the master of the day after, who has given blessing and
guidance. Because of his graciousness and mercifulness the writer can write well
and finish the thesis.
Sholawat and sallam may Allah send them to our Prophet Muhammad
SAW, (peace and salutation be upon him), his families, his companions, and his
followers. The best messenger for peopleall over the world. This world becomes
peace because of his hard effort in giving the human being advices.
On this opportunity, the writer herewith would like to express profound gratitude,
more than the writer can express, to:
1. Prof. Dr. DedeRosyada MA, as the rector of SyarifHidayatullah Jakarta
State Islamic University.
2. Prof. Dr. SukronKamil, MA, as the dean of Adab and Humanities
Faculties.
3. Drs. SaefudinM.Pd, as the Head of English Language Literature
Department, and ElveOktafiyani, M.Hum, as the secretary of English
Language and Literature Department. For the contribution and attention.
4. My Advisor, Drs. H Romdani, M.Pd for his valuable guidance,
encouragement, patient, correlation, advice, and suggestion which are very
helpful in finishing this thesis. Then,thanks for the time to share his great
knowledge and great experiences to the writer.
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5. Special thanks to my Beloved father, Zulkifli. Thank you so much for your
affection, advices, guidance, instruction and help in all my life, your love
is beyond any words. And to my beloved mother, although she has passed
away but I felt she always there. In addition to my beloved twin Osa
Amelia and my beloved brother, Rio Satria, who motivated, encouraged,
reminded the writer to finish the thesis as soon as possible. May Allah
SWT does ever safeguard.
6. All lecturers of English Literature Department, who have transferred much
knowledge to me. For guidance, instruction and help during study at the
university.
7. Special Thanks to my best friends, Mila, Khapsoh, Ana, Khalimatul,
Barkah, Novaletc, they all have given me a cheerful and joyful world and
beautiful togetherness. There are so many laugh and smile that we pass
together.
8. My Best friends since senior high school, Nelly, Desi, Saskia, Mutia, and
Ihsan Thanks for our togetherness and your attention.
9. My best friends of Junior High School, Mikel, Yani, thank you for all the
support that you guys always gave.
10. Thanks to My Close Friends, Ifa, Dede, Ulfa, Kiki and PutriWhose have
given me a cheerful and joyful world and beautiful togetherness; I’ll never
forget our happiness and sadness when we were together in female
dormitory.
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11. Special thanks to my big family: my aunts, my uncles, my grandmother,
all siblings that always supported and helped the writer through the smile.
12. Special Thanks to my beloved friends “Female Dormitory UinJakarta ”
they all have given me a cheerful and joyful world and beautiful
togetherness.
13. Last, but far from least, my very sincere thanks to who are not mentioned
personally here, without their patience, guidance, support and cooperation
this thesis could have never been written.
Finally, the writer hopes it will be a useful thing for the writer herself and
for all to improve educational quality.
Jakarta, September 2016
The Writer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................... I
APPROVAL SHEET ................................................................................ II
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................... III
DECLARATION ..................................................................................... IV
ACKNOWLEDGMENT .......................................................................... V
TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................... VIII
CHAPTER. 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................. 1
A. Background of the Research .......................................................... 1
B. Focus of the Research .................................................................... 4
C. Research Questions ........................................................................ 4
D. Objective of the Research .............................................................. 4
E. Significance of the Research .......................................................... 5
F. Research Methodology .................................................................. 5
1. Method of the Research ........................................................... 5
2. The technique of Data Collecting and Analysis ...................... 5
A. Data Collecting .................................................................. 6
B. Data Analysis ..................................................................... 6
3. Instrument of the Research ..................................................... 6
4. Analysis Unit ........................................................................... 7
CHAPTER II. THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK ................................... 8
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A. Previous Research ........................................................................... 8
B. Pragmatics ....................................................................................... 9
C. Cooperative Principle .................................................................... 11
1. Maxim of Quantity .................................................................. 11
2. Maxim of Quality .................................................................... 12
3. Maxim of Relation ................................................................. 13
4. Maxim of Manner ................................................................... 13
D. The Non- Observance Maxim ....................................................... 14
1. Flouting the Maxim ................................................................. 14
2. Violating the maxim ............................................................... 15
3. Infringing the Maxim .............................................................. 15
4. Opting-out the Maxim ............................................................. 17
5. Suspending the Maxim ........................................................... 17
E. Implicature .................................................................................... 18
1. Conventional Implicature ........................................................ 19
2. Conversational Implicature ..................................................... 20
2.1 Generalized Conversational Implicature ........................... 20
2.2 Particularized Conversational Implicature ........................ 21
CHAPTER III.RESEARCH FINDINGS .............................................. 23
A. Data Description ........................................................................... 23
B. Data Analysis ................................................................................ 25
CHAPTER. IV. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ................... 44
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A. Conclusions ................................................................................... 44
B. Suggestions ................................................................................... 45
BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................... 46
APPENDICS ............................................................................................. 48
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Research
Communication is an important thing in human life, because human is a
social creatures. As a social creature, human always communicate with other by
using language. The interactional use of language is to describe our reactions to
event and to regulate our interaction with other people. By this language, people
try to manage their social life (Brown 11-12). That is why in daily activities
human always used language to understand among each other. It also means that
someone has to say certain meaning and that message which becomes the core of
communication can be accepted and interpreted by others.
On the other hand, communication among human does not go well.
Sometimes there is any lie, ambiguity or irrelevant communication between them.
Sometimes there is a misunderstanding that has been created. In pragmatics it is
called implicature. (Yule 35) mentioned that Implicature can be considered as an
additional conveyed meaning. It is attained when a speaker intends to
communicate more than just what the words mean. ( Grice 158 ) stated the notion
of a conversational implicature as one kind of implicature beside a conventional
implicature to account for the fact that sentence can imply things that are not
directly encoded as part of their meaning. Instead, the implicatures are computed
as a relation between what is said and what could have been said based on general
principles of cooperation between participants in a conversation.
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Look at the example below an example of implicature:, Carol and Linda
talking about Carol asked Linda to come to the party. An example Stated by (Yule
44) :
(1) Carol: Are coming to the party tonight?
Linda: I’ve got an exam tomorrow.
On the face of this short dialogue, Linda’s statement is not an answer to
Carol’s question. Linda does not say Yes or No. Yet Carol will immediately
interpret the statement as meaning ‘No’ or ‘Probably Not’. Given Linda’s original
answer contains relevant information, Carol can work out that ‘exam tomorrow’
conventionally involves ‘study tonight’, and ‘study tonight’ precludes ‘party
tonight’. Thus, Linda’s answer is not simply a statement about tomorrow’s
activities it, contains an implicature (an additional conveyed meaning) concerning
tonight’s activities.
Moreover, the conversational implicature also occurs in a lot of media. One
of the media that writer choose is a movie. The movie that the writer used is
Jurassic World movie. The writer is interested in analyzing the conversation that
has been created by the characters in the Jurassic World Movie. The movie is
released in 2015. This movie is a science fiction adventure movie. Director of this
movie is Collin Trevorrow. Produced by Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowleyand the
stars are Chriss Patt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Jurassic World has generated over
$1.6 billion in box office revenue, standing as the fourth highest grossing film of
all time and the highest in the franchise.
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To know the movie very well we have to know about what is exactly means
by the characters in the movie. By focusing on the conversational implicature the
writer finds many conversational maxims that are violated in the movie because
many of characters in the movie deliberated violated the cooperative principle.
Look at the piece of conversation in the movie Jurassic World below:
(2) Context : Gray and his brother Zach are standing to see the kinds of the
dinosaurs, but Gray as Zach’s little brother can’t see because there are so many
people in front of them and he is not tall enough.
Gray : Lift me up. I can't see!
Zach : I'm not Dad. And you're not five.
Gray : I can still ride the Triceratops. I'm 47-and-a-half inches.
From the dialogue above shows that Zach did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. The utterance that Zach gives have no correlated to
the question from his little brother Gray, it was uncooperative. The utterance “I'm
not Dad. And you're not five”. rising the conversational implicature. Zach does
flouting maxim of manner with makes a statement that obscurity. In this dialogue
we can see that there is no situation that can makes Zach speak unclearly like that,
so that Zach is flouting maxim of manner and rise conversational implicature. the
meaning of the implicature that gave by Zach is “he wants to his brother know
that usually just a kid who five years old that want to lift up and he wants to his
brother know that his brother not a kid anymore.
Zach actually can answer his little brother with the simply answer “no I
won’t” but Zach does a flouting maxim of manner because he won’t to lift up his
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brother Gray and wants to his brother know that usually just a kid who five years
old that want to lift up”.
However, the research would like to analyze deeper about what are the
maxim of Cooperative Principle that non-observed by the characters in the movie,
such as how the non-observance maxims occurs in the conversation, and what is
the meaning of each implicature that occurs in Jurassic World movie.
B. Focus of the Research
This research will be focus on conversational implicature which has resulted from
non- observance maxims by the characters by their conversation in Jurassic World
Movie which released in 2015. This implicature will be analyzed using a theory
by H.P Grice Theory.
C. Research Question
From the background of the research above, there are 3 questions in this research,
those are:
1. What are the maxims of Cooperative Principle that non-observed in the
Jurassic World movie?
2. How does the non – observance maxims occurs in the Jurassic World
movie?
3. What is the meaning of each implicature that occurs in the Jurassic World
movie?
D. Objective of the Research
Based on the research question above, the objectives of research are:
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1. To identify the maxims of cooperative principle that non-observed in the
dialogue of the characters in the Jurassic World movie.
2. To know how the non-observance maxim occurs in the Jurassic World
movie.
3. To know what is the meaning of each implicature that occurs in the
Jurassic World movie
E. Significance of the Research
This research, entitled “The Analysis of Conversational Implicature in Jurassic
World (2015) Movie”, is the study of pragmatics that focuses on analyzing the
maxim of cooperative principle that non- observed and how the non-observance
maxim occurs in the movie, then what is the meaning of each implicature that
occurs in the movie. This research is conducted in order to specify the existed
research. Thus this research can provide the others with new insight of non-
observed of maxim of co-operative principle in conversational implicature
analysis.
F. Research Methodology
1. Method of the Research
Because the data in this research are utterances that have been spoke by the
characters, this research applies qualitative methodology. The data contained
in this research based on utterances that happened in the dialogue of the
movie. Hence, the writer finds that qualitative research will positively
appropriate to the research.
2. The Technique of Data Collecting and Analysis
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A. Data Collecting
In this research uses descriptive analysis technique. Then, there are the
steps of Data Collecting as follows:
a. The titled as a source data is read thoroughly.
b. The data which contains conversational implicature are given a mark.
c. Identifying every conversation from the characters in the movie which
contains conversational implicature.
d. The research uses conversational implicature by H.P Grice to analyze
this study.
e. Last steps, concludes the result.
B. Data Analysis
In the phase of data analysis, data in this research which implicatures are
resulted by the characters in the Jurassic World movie. This research will be
analyzed by using a pragmatics theory. The theory that uses in this research is
conversational implicature by H.P Grice. The theory will be analyzed through
three steps: first, the data will be classified into what are the maxims that non-
observance by the characters, and after that, the research will explain how the
non-observance maxims occurs in the movie, then what is the meaning of
each implicature in the movie.
3. The Instrument of The Research
Instrument of this research is a conversational implicature from Jurassic
World Movie which is used to looking for the data. The selected data in this
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movie are the data which have violation on maxim because these things are
need to analyze one by one.
4. Analysis Unit
As the unit of analysis, the research uses movie titled of Jurassic World from
the director Collin Trevorrow, production by Universal Studios and it released
in 2015.
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CHAPTER II
THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Previous Research
For consideration in this study, there are a few listed of some previous studies
by several researchers that discussed about the same subject. First is, the thesis
was conducted by Asrorul Nur Muvida in 2015 with the titled” The
Conversational Implicature that used by the three main characters in Hotel
Transylvania movie”. This study is focus on analyze how are the main character
utterances in the conversation by using a theory of H.P Grice. Besides that, this
research related to implicature that can be considered. The writer of this research
analyzed one of the four cooperative principles in pragmatics which is a maxim
of manner that used by three main characters in that movie and also explain
about the context of each utterance that have been spoke. The writer of the
research used so many data to count which data that can conclude to the
generalized or particularized conversational implicature. Based on the
conclusion of this research, the writer found 234 utterances are included as
Generalized conversational implicature and found about 44 utterances are
included as Particularized conversational implicature.
The second study was conducted by Wakhana Putri in 2011 with the titled “
An analysis of implicature as found in a transcript of interview between Barack
Obama and Hisyam Melhem from Al- Arabiya TV”. This research focuses on the
implicature as found in the transcript of interview between Obama and Hisyam
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Melhem. In this research, applies Grice’s theory about the cooperative principle
and Hymes’ theory about context. In analyzing the writer uses pragmatic by
which the data are analyzed by determining the unit of certain language used by
the speaker as a certain purpose out of the text. In the other word, the writer
analyzes the data by using the context of the language used by the speaker.
Moreover, in this case, the pragmatic tool is focused on the speaker, Barack
Obama. Thus, to get the validity and reliability of the result, the writer tries to
view the object from the context in order to get the conclusion.
However, this research is different with two previous researches above. This
study will describe further about conversational implicature that occurs in the
dialogue between the characters in the movie. This research is going to analyze
what are the maxims of Cooperative Principle that non- observed by the
characters in the movie. In addition this research also will analyze about how the
non-observance maxim occurs in the movie, then what is the meaning of each
implicature that occurs in the movie.
B. Pragmatics
The subject of pragmatics is very familiar in linguistics today. Many
linguists argue that we cannot really understand the nature of language itself
unless we understand pragmatics: how language is used in communication. There
are many definitions about the notion of pragmatics defined by linguists.
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Further, (Kreidler 18) states that pragmatics is another branch of linguistics
that is concerned with meaning. While, (Peccei 5) states that pragmatics
concentrates on the aspect of meaning that could not be predicted by linguistic
knowledge alone and take into account our knowledge about the physical and
social world. The focus of pragmatics analysis is on the meaning of words or
sentence.
Furthermore, (Yule 4) in “Pragmatics” said that pragmatics is the study of
the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms.
Furthermore, pragmatics is the study of those relations between language and
context that are grammaticalized or encoded in the structure of language
(Levinson 9). The advantage of studying language via pragmatics is that one can
talk about people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or
goals and the kinds of actions that they are performing when they speak.
(Yule 129-133) stated that the coverage of pragmatics includes
presupposition, implicature, entailment, speech act, and deixis. From the
definition above, the writer concludes that pragmatics is the study about
meaning conveyed by the speaker or writer and interpreted by listener or reader.
From the speaker view, pragmatics is an analysis about meaning of the speaker
utterance rather than the meaning of a word or phrase that is used them. From
the contextual point of view, pragmatics is the interpretation about the meaning
of a person in a particular context and the influence of context to his or her
statement.
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In addition, This implies that Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning
since it deals more with what the speaker means by uttering than what the words
or phrases in the utterance mean. It also implies that Pragmatics is the study of
contextual meaning as it covers the interpretation of what people means in a
particular context and how the context influences what is said.
C. Cooperative Principle
(Brown and Yule 36) stated that cooperative principle is the principle
when the concept of there being of expected amount of information provide a
conversation is just one aspect of the more general idea that people involved in
a conversation will cooperate to each other.
(Grice 173) stated that there is a general cooperative principle between
speakers and hearers which controls or guides the way they speak. The
cooperative principle consists of four maxims with their sub maxims. (Grice
158) formulates the Co-operative Principle as mentioned ‘Make your
contribution such as it is required, at the stage at which it occurs’, and the Co-
operative Maxims or known as the Conversational Maxims as the principle
which consists of four maxims, namely; quality maxim, quantity maxim,
relation maxim and manner maxim
a. Maxim of Quantity
1) Make the contribution as informative as required (for the current
purposes of exchange).
2) Do not make the contribution more informative than is required.
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(Grundy 74) stated that maxim of quantity as one of the cooperative principles
is concerned in giving the information as it is required and is not giving the
information more than it is required. The speakers just say the information needed,
it should not be less informative or more informative. In a normal circumstance,
the maxim of quantity provides that the speaker say just enough, that they do not
supply less information or more that is necessary. Examples:
a) Ray : What is the capital of United States of America?
Tom : It is somewhere in America continent.
b) Anne : Where is Rose book store?
Lynch : There will be a signboard.
b. Maxim of Quality
1) Try to make the contribution one is true.
2) Do not say what is believed to be false.
3) Do not say that for which lack evidence.
Add by ( Grundy 74) stated that maxim quality can be defined as truthful as
required. That means the speaker should inform the truth and they are not
allowed to say what they think false and give the statement that run short of
proof. Here speaker write are expected to say only what they believe to be true
and to have evidence for what they say. However, the speaker must aware of this
expression, that the hearers expect them to honor the maxim of quality.
Examples: a) Romeo : Dear, I totally love you. I will pick up the stars from the
sky and bring them to you to prove it.
Juliet : Oo.. That sounds so pretty nice.
b) Alexa : Joanne told me that you had known who the thief was.
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Jim : Yes, I think I saw him while I was sleepi
c. Maxim of Relation
(Grundy 74) state that maxim of relevance is fulfilled when the speaker give
information that is relevant to the topic proceeding. Therefore, each of the
speaker or hearer must be relevant to the topic of conversation. Examples:
a) Kelly : Mom, I got 3 on my English.
Mommy : You can be an excellent English teacher.
b) Abraham : Mike, your girlfriend is really awesome.
Mike : Yesterday I hit John until he got fainted.
d. Maxim of Manner : be clear in giving an information
1) Avoid unclearness of expression.
2) Avoid ambiguity.
3) Be brief.
4) Be orderly.
Add by (Cutting 35) stated that maxim of manner is when the speakers put
information briefly and orderly, the speaker must avoid the obscure and
ambiguous information from the hearer. Therefore, each participant must give
the information directly and reasonably, and it should not be vague, ambiguous
or excessive.
It is important to recognize these maxims as unstated assumptions we have in
conversations. We assume that people are normally going to provide an
appropriate amount of information and they are telling the truth, being relevant
and trying to be as clear as they can. These rules according to people are expected
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to behave when communicating with one another are frequently flouted or
violated.
D. The Non- Observance Maxim
Grice pointed out that not all people observe the maxims, when the speaker
fails to observe the maxims, this means that there is a distinction between what
the speaker says and what he means, in other words, an implicature arises as a
result of non-observance of the maxims, and the implicature here plays a great
role to get the intended meaning of the speaker's utterance.
Grice distinguished five types by which the speaker fails to observe a maxim;
they are flouting, violating, Infringing, opting out, and suspending.
1. Flouting a Maxim
The speaker blatantly fails to observe a maxim in which he has no intention of
deceiving or misleading. The speaker wishes to raise the hearer's attention to
the implicit meaning which is different from, or in addition to, the expressed
meaning. According to Grice this additional meaning is called "Conversational
implicature" and the way by which such implicature is generated is called
"flouting a Maxim" (Grice 71). An example was given by (Thomas 71):
Interviewer: Did the United States Government play any part in Duvalier's
Departure? Did they, for example, actively encourage him to leave?
Official: I would not try to steer you away from that conclusion.
In the above example the official response is extremely long and convoluted
and it is obviously no accident, nor through any inability to speak clearly,
therefore, he has failed to observe the maxim of manner. The official has
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replied 'Yes'. The other example which involves the flouting to maxim of
quantity is shown below:
A: How did you find Jones’ thesis?
B: It was well typed.
(Richards and Schmidt 122), explained that by choosing not to be as
informative as required, B is suggesting that the other qualities of the thesis were
not worth commenting on. B has thus communicated through rules of
conversational implicature that it was a bad thesis.
2. Violating the maxims
According to (Grice 49), the speaker violates a maxim when s/he will be liable to
mislead the hearer to have such implicature. For example give by (Thomas 73)
Context : There was a husband that asked to his wife who was guessed maybe
having an affair.
Husband : Is there another man?
Wife : No, there is not another man.
Wife‟s reply is true that she is not having affair with another man, but not the
whole truth (she is, in fact, having an affair with a woman).
3.Infringing the maxim
When the speaker has an imperfect knowledge or performance of
language, the speaker here infringes the maxims like a young child or a learner of
foreign language who has imperfect command of the language. Furthermore;
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nervousness, darkness, excitement may make impairment of the speaker's
performance, in these cases s/he does the infringement (Thomas 74). Sometimes
speaker infringes the maxims because he is incapable to speak clearly, he does not
know the culture or he has not enough knowledge of language.
For example: Someone learning English as a second language speaks to a native
speaker.
English speaker : Would you like ham or salad on your sandwich?
Non-English speaker : "Yes"
The implicature has not been generated by interlocutor; s/he has not understood
the utterance. The answer might be interpreted as non-operative; this is a case of
different social knowledge which implied a different implicature (Dornerus 7).
The difference between violating and infringing located in the fact of speaker's
intention; in violating the speaker is liable to mislead the hearer, whereas in
infringing the speaker unintentionally fails to observe a maxim. Violating is a
kind of misleading the hearer to get implicatures, the speaker here intends to
mislead in order to save face or avoid hurting the audiences. Infringement occurs
when a speaker fails to observe the maxim because he has no perfect knowledge
to communicate
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4. Opting out the maxim
When the speaker opts out from the maxim, s/he seems unwilling to cooperate
in the way the maxim requires (Grice 71). Moreover, (Thomas 74) said that the
"example of opting out occurs frequently in public life, when the speaker cannot,
perhaps for legal or ethical reason, reply in the way normally expected. The
speaker usually wishes to avoid generating a false implicature or appearing
uncooperative". Thomas also stated that giving the requested information might
hurt a third party or put them in danger.
For example: If a doctor or a nurse, who has complete confidentiality regarding
his/her patients, is asked by the police or the press to reveal something about the
patient that s/he is treating, he /she will reply:
A: I am sorry but can't tell you anything.
The doctor or nurse opted out maxim when s/he prevented from answering; the
doctor seems to be unwilling to cooperate, due to the procedures of the hospital or
for the sake of secret information or something else. (Dornerus 7).
5. Suspending the maxim
If there is no expectation on the part of any participant that the maxims will be
fulfilled (hence the non-fulfillment does not generate any implicatures), the
speakers do not observe the maxims. It may be culturally-specific to a particular
event. The suspending of the maxim of quality can be found in funeral orations
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and obituaries, when the description of the deceased needs to be praiseworthy and
exclude any potentially unfavorable aspects of their life or personality. Poetry
suspends the manner maxim since it does not aim for conciseness, clarity and lack
of ambiguity. In the case of telegrams, telexes and some international phone calls
quantity maxim will be suspended because such means are functional owing to
their very brevity .It is difficult to find any persuasive examples in which the
maxim of relation is suspended (Thomas 76-78).
E. Implicature
Implicature can be considered as an additional conveyed meaning (Yule 35).
It is attained when a speaker intends to communicate more than just what the
words mean. It is the speaker who communicates something via implicatures and
the listener recognizes those communicated meanings via inference. Implicatures
are inferred based on assumption that the speaker observes or flouts some
principles of cooperation.
The concept of implicature was first introduced by H.P Grice (1975) to solve
the problem of language meaning. Implicature is used to determine what the
meaning of the utterance whether it is from explicit or implicit. While (Gasdar
38) point out that implicature refers to a proposition implied by an utterance in a
context even though it is not part, nor the entailment of what actually said.
Moreover, (Levinson 61) claimed implicatures as one of the most important
ideas or thoughts in a pragmatic ("one of the single most important ideas in
pragmatics"). One important reason he gives is that implicatures provide explicit
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explanations on how to imply more than what is spoken "Provides some explicit
account of how it is possible to mean more than what is actually said". Example:
A: "Can you tell me the time?
B: "Well, the milkman has come".
The answer from the question above seems irrelevant with a request about time,
but B actually wants to say that B exactly does not know what time it was. In the
conversation actually B hopes that A can suggest the time by himself by saying
that the milkman has arrived. In this context, it seems both A or B knows about
what time usually the milkman has come.
1. Conventional Implicature
According to (Yule 45), that conventional implicatures are associated with
specific words and result in additional conveyed meanings when those words are
used. ‘But’, ‘even’, ‘yet’ are the words recognized having this kind of
implicatures. (Grice in Levinson 127) states that the word ‘but’ has the same
truth-conditional (or truth-functional) content as the word ‘and’ with an additional
conventional implicature to the effect that there is some contrast between the
conjuncts. When ‘even’ is included in any sentence describing an event, there is
an implicature of ‘contrary to expectation’. While the conventional implicature of
‘yet’ is that the present situation is expected to be different, or perhaps the
opposite, of a later time.
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In addition, conventional implicature are not based on the cooperative
principle or the maxims. They do not have to occur in conversation, and they do not
depend on special contexts for their interpretation. (Yule 45).
Conventional implicature is always conveyed, regardless of context.
According to (Levinson 127), conventional implicature are non-truth conditional
inferences that are not derived from super ordinate pragmatic principles like the
maxims, but are simply attached by convention to particular lexical item.
1. Conversational Implicature
Grice says that conversational implicature can be defined as “A different
(opposite, additional, etc) pragmatic meaning of an utterance with respect to the
literal meaning expressed by utterance” (L. Mey 371). Conversational implicature
is to be related to cooperative principle. (Grice 45), states: “Make your
contribution such as required; at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted
purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged”
The implicature which has been resulted by violating the cooperative
principle is conversational implicature. To understand the meaning of
conversational implicature, sometimes we must relate it with situation or context
where it’s happening (Yule 31). In Levinson’s books the titled “pragmatics”.
Grice distinguish conversational implicature into two types, those are
Generalized conversational implicature and Particularized conversational
implicature (Levinson 126).
1.1 Generalized Conversational Implicature
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Generalized conversational implicatures are implicature that are normally
carried by saying that p. As an example of generalized conversational
implicature, Grice suggests the use of a/an X, which carries the implicature that
X is only remotely related in a certain way to some person indicated by the
context. When someone says “John is meeting a woman this evening”, he
certainly means that is, conversationally implicates +>“The woman John is
meeting this evening is not his mother, his sister or his wife”.
According to his book (Levinson 126) stated that Generalized Conversational
Implicature arise without any particular context and special scenario being
necessary. Look at the example below:
A. Do you buy cheese and bread?
B. I buy bread
By the example above, it means that speaker B does not buy cheese and it
can be understood although the speaker B does not give information about that.
There is no special background of the implicature.
Information or inference of generalized conversational implicature is
obtained by using word which expressed one value from scale of value. Hence,
another way to Generalized Conversational Implicature is using scalar
implicature.
1.2 Particularized Conversational Implicature
Some assumed knowledge which is required in very specific context during
conversation is called particularized conversational implicature. As an illustration,
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consider an example where Lara‟s response does not appear on the surface to
adhere to relevance. It is simply relevant answer would be „yes‟ or „no‟.
Carol : Are you coming to the party tonight?
Lara : I’ve got an exam tomorrow.
(Taken from Yule 131)
In order to make Lara‟s response relevant, Carol has to draw on some
assumed knowledge that Lara will be spending that evening with his parents,
consequently he is not at party. Based on description above, the writer is capable
sum up that the criterion of particularized conversational implicature is
conversational implicature that its meaning is out part of the utterance, so that
hearer should need knowledge more to interpret what speaker mean. In other
word, particularized conversational implicature is the inferences of hearer which
only can be work out or interpreted while drawing totally on the specific context
of the utterance.
Particularized Conversational Implicature is one of the subclass of Grice’s
conversational implicature. However, most of the times of our conversations takes
place in very specific context in which locally recognized inferences is assumed
(Yule 42).
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In collecting data, this research uses descriptive analysis technique.
Then, there are the steps of Data Collecting as follows: a. The titled as a source
data is read thoroughly. b. The data which contains conversational implicature
are given a mark. c. Identifying every conversation from the characters in the
movie which contains conversational implicature. d. The research uses
conversational implicature by H.P Grice to analyze this study. e. Last steps,
concludes the result.
By using the techniques, there are 17 data that the writer selected and
concluded based on the question above.
Table of conversational implicature
DATA
NON-
OBSERVANCE
MAXIM
CONVERSATIONAL
IMPLICATURE
Data 1
Flouting
Manner
Generalized
Data 2
Flouting
Manner
Particularized
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Data 3
Violating
Quantity
Generalized
Data 4
Flouting
Relation
Particularized
Data 5
Flouting
Relation
Generalized
Data 6
Flouting
Manner
Particularized
Data 7
Flouting
Manner
Particularized
Data 8
Flouting
Relation
Particularized
Data 9
Flouting
Manner
Particularized
Data 10
Flouting
Manner
Particularized
Data 11
Violating
Manner
Generalized
Data 12
Violating
Manner
Generalized
Data 13
Violating
Relation
Generalized
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Data 14
Flouting
Relation
Particularized
Data 15
Violating
Manner
Generalized
Data 16
Flouting
Manner
Generalized
Data 17
Flouting
Manner
Generalized
B.Data Analysis
Data 1
Context: Zach and his brother Gray are at the airport, they are going to take a
vacation. They parents Karen and Scoot are companying them to the airport and
give some advices before they left.
Karen: Take care of your brother, answer your phone. I'm serious. It's the green
button. When you see my name, push it, okay? And remember,
something chases you, run.
Zach: Yeah, you're funny.
From the dialogue above shows that Zach did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. The utterance that Zach gives have no correlated to
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the question from his mother Karen and it was uncooperative. The utterance Yeah,
you’re funny rising the conversational implicature. Zach flouting maxim of
manner with makes a statement that obscurity. In this dialogue we can see that
there is no situation that can makes Zach speak unclearly like that, so that Zach is
flouting maxim of manner and rise conversational implicature.
Zach actually can answer his mother with the simply answer “Yes mom”
but the non-observance maxim occurs in this conversation because “ He do not
wants to hear another advice from his mother anymore, Zach assumed that if He
answer his mother with “ yes” his mother will continue give another advice for
him. So that is why the non-observance maxim occurs in this conversation. while,
the meaning of the implicature that gave by Zach is “ he knows what his mother
asked for and he will do that advice, but he do not like the way his mother convey
that advice. There is no need a special knowledge to know the context of the
conversation so the implicature in this conversation is classified as generalized
conversational implicature.
Data 2
Context: there’s a husband name Scott and his wife name Karen talking about
their family. Scott asked Karen to call her sister because their kids will watch
over by Karen’s sister.
Scoot : Did you call your sister?
Karen : Straight to voicemail.
Scoot : They'll be fine. She handles twenty-thousand people a day. She can handle
two more.
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The utterance of Karen “Straight to the voicemail” in response to Scoot’s
question is conversational implicature. Karen does a flouting the maxim of
manner in the conversation. Karen actually wants to answer his husband Scoot
with the simply answer “Yes I do” because the answer actually means that “she is
already called her sister”. But she answer with” Straight to voicemail”. the non-
observance maxim occurs in the conversation because she assumed that she’s
husband knows the voicemail is the same with calling by phone.
Hence, the utterance of Scoot above “They'll be fine. She handles twenty-
thousand people a day”. She can handle two more. While, the meaning of
implicature that gave by Scoot above certainly implicated that “Karen’s sister is
capable to watch over their children”. so that utterance certainly implicated that
that Karen’s sister work in a company that required her handles twenty-thousand
people a day and that is why she also can handle Karen’s children. The special
knowledge about voicemail and Karen’s sister need in this conversation. The
implicature was clearly included particularized conversational implicature.
Data 3
Context : Claire and Mr Masrani are going to have a flight using a helicopter.
The helicopter will ride by Mr. Masrani.
Claire : Mr. Masrani! You're... flying!
Masrani : I got my license.
Flight Instructors : (holds up two fingers) Two more.
From the dialogue above shows that Mr. Masrani did not observe the
cooperative principle in the conversation. Mr. Masrani did not- observed the
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maxim of quantity. The meaning of the implicature that gives by Mr. Masrani is “
he already got the license to flying the helicopter so do not have to worry”. Mr
Masrani violating maxim of quantity which he lies when he said that he got a
license to flight. In fact, Mr Masrani haven’t got the license yet, it can proved by
the flight instructors holds up two fingers, it means that Mr Masrani have to do
two more flight to get that license. Violating that Mr. Masrani does conclude to
violating the maxim quantity because Mr. Masrani not gave the appropriate
information to Claire, The non-observance maxim occurs in this conversation
because Mr. Masrani wants Claire thinks that he already got the license to flying
the helicopter in order to Claire allowed him to flying it.
There is no need a special knowledge to know the context of the
implicatrure. So the implicature in this conversation is classified as generalized
conversational implicature.
Data 4
Context: Mr. Masrani is talking with his partner Claire. They are talking about
their business which is Jurassic World, Mr Masrani suggested Claire don’t
thinking too much about the profit of the Jurassic World, because Claire should
take a rest for while. Instead Mr Masrani talking about something that have no
correlated with Jurassic world.
Masrani : You should spend a day at the beach. Get some sun.
Claire : Uh, right, so marketing thought we could offset some of the costs--
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Masrani : Ah, enough about costs! John Hammond entrusted me with his dying
wish, and not once did he mention profits. "Spare no expense", he use to say.
Claire : I appreciate that, but the reality of operating a theme park is that it
requires--
Masrani : Don't forget why we built this place, Claire. Jurassic World exists to
remind us how very small we are.
On the dialogue above, Mr Masrani did not observe maxim of cooperative
principle in the conversation. Mr Masrani does flouting maxim of relation with
blatantly give irrelevant information more than Claire’s needs. Claire talking
about the marketing of the Jurassic World park and the costs of that park, but Mr
Masrani replies with saying” Jurassic World exists to remind us how very small
we are”. It is not relevant with Claire’s saying. The non-observance maxim
occurs in this conversation because Mr Masrani wants Claire to take a rest and
not always thinking about costs and profit of Jurassic World. So the meaning of
the implicature that gives by Mr Masrani is implicated that we as a human is just
a small creature if comparing to the animals in the Jurassic World and human is
just a small creature if comparing to the god power or the universe so do not be a
greedy person and do not always thinking about costs and profit of Jurassic
World.
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The special knowledge need to infer what is the meaning of that
statement. The special knowledge needs to infer conversational implicature. The
implicature is concluded as particularized conversational implicature.
Data 5
Context : Claire visit Owen at his bungalow near the sea. Claire asked Owen to
control the raptors (dinosaurs). Owen is ex American Army who works to control
the raptors. But Owen talk over about he failed date with Claire and their never
have a second date.
Claire : I guess that Mr. Masrani thinks, since you are able to control the raptors...
Owen : See, it's all about control with you. I don't control the raptors, it's a
relationship. It's based on mutual respect. That's why you and I never had a
second date.
From the description above, Owen does a flouting the maxim of relation
because The answer that Owen gives have no correlated to the question from
Claire or we can said that it was uncooperative. The non-observance maxim
occurs in the conversation because Owen still has a feeling to Claire but Claire
never knows that. That is why when Claire talking about the raptors, instead
Owen talking about their relationship in the past.
The meaning of the implicature that gave by Owen is “he wants Claire know
that he is till has a feeling to Claire and actually he blamed Claire because they
first date was failed. There is no need a special knowledge to know the context of
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the conversation, so the implicature clearly as a generalized conversational
implicature.
Data 6
Context : Claire and Owen are in Owen Bungalow they are blaming to one
another because they first date was failed.
Owen : Who prints out an itinerary for a night out?!
Claire : I am an organized person and what kind of a men shows up to a date in
board shorts?
Owen : Well, it's Central America; it's hot.
Claire : Ok, ok. Can we just focus on the asset, please?
Owen can simply answer “ it’s hot “ for the question of Claire. But he
replies well “it’s Central America” that rising an obscurity information. It means
that Owen did non- observe the cooperative principle in the conversation. He is
flouting a maxim of manner by giving unclearly information. The non-observance
maxim in this conversation occurs because Owen wants to Claire knows that he
was wearing the board shorts because it was hot to wear a long shirt. That is why
he was wearing a board short to their date. The meaning of the implicature that
Owen gave is that “Claire is too old-fashioned “ because she was forbid Owen to
wear a long short.
For generating the implicature we have to know the setting of the
conversation. The attendance of the utterance is supported by the setting of the
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conversation which is Central America that known as a hot area in American
continent that is why he used a board shorts to a date with Claire. Because
implicature need a special knowledge to know the context this implicature is
include as particularized conversational implicature.
Data 7
Context : Gray and his brother Zach are standing to see the kinds of the
dinosaurs, but Gray as Zach’s little brother can’t see because there are so many
people in front of them and he is not tall enough.
Gray : Lift me up. I can't see!
Zach : I'm not Dad. And you're not five.
Gray : I can still ride the Triceratops. I'm 47-and-a-half inches.
From the dialogue above shows that Zach did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. The utterance that Zach gives have no correlated to
the question from his little brother Gray, it was uncooperative. The utterance “I'm
not Dad. And you're not five”. rising the conversational implicature. Zach does
flouting maxim of manner with makes a statement that obscurity. In this dialogue
we can see that there is no situation that can makes Zach speak unclearly like that,
so that Zach is flouting maxim of manner and rise conversational implicature. the
meaning of the implicature that gave by Zach is “he wants to his brother know
that usually just a kid who five years old that want to lift up and he wants to his
brother know that his brother not a kid anymore.
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Zach actually can answer his little brother with the simply answer “no I
won’t” but Zach does a flouting maxim of manner because he won’t to lift up his
brother Gray and wants to his brother know that usually just a kid who five years
old that want to lift up”. We need a special knowledge to know the context of
Zach’s statement. Then, it belongs to particularized conversational implicature.
Data 8
Context : one kind of dinosaur makes a disturbance in the Jurassic World park,
Mr Masrani as the owner of Jurassic World reprimanded Henry Wu because he
reputed.
Masrani : You created a monster!
Henry Wu: Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just
used to being the cat.
In the conversation above, Henry Wu does not observe the cooperative
principle. Henry Wu flouting the maxim of relation with blatantly gives irrelevant
information that Mr Masrani needs. Mr Masrani stated that Henry Wu created a
monster, but Henry Wu replies with “Monster is a relative term, a cat is a
monster. We’re just used being the cat”. It is not relevant and it is conversational
implicature. Hence, for generating the implicature we have to know how the cat
usually is. So the meaning of the implicature that gave by Henry Wu implicated
that he is not created a monster like Mr Masrani said. He just made a creature
like a cat, we know that usually a cat is not dangerous at all and not like a
monster that very dangerous. It made the implicature had the implication what is
Mr Masrani stated is not true.
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The non-observance maxim occurs in this conversation because Henry Wu
do not like the utterance that said by Mr Masrani that said “ Henry Wu created a
monster”. Special knowledge needs to know the context of what Henry Wu
actually means. The implicature was clearly included as particularized
conversational implicature.
Data 9
Context : Claire and Zach are looking for Claire’s nephews who escaped from the
dinosaurs. They are looking for them in the jungle.
Claire : I’m not one of your damn animals.
Owen : listen, those kids are still alive, but you and I will not be if you continue to
scream like that.
Claire : so….. you can pick up their scent? Can’t you? Track their footprints?
Owen : I was with the Navy not the Navajo.
Owen can simply answer “yes or no“ to answer the question of Claire. But
he replies “I was with the Navy not the Navajo”, that is rising an obscurity
information. It means that Owen does non- observed the cooperative principle in
the conversation. He is flouting a maxim of manner by giving unclearly
information. The non-observance maxim occurs in this conversation because
Owen wants Claire know that he can’t do what Claire asked him to do.
The meaning of the implicature that gives by Owen implicated that he
can’t to pick up the scent and track the foot prints like Claire asking. He was just
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in Navy and he is not a Navajo, we know that Navajo is an ethnic group from
southwestern united stated, that ethnic group usually can track the footprints. It
made the implicature had the implication that Owen can’t do what Claire asked.
Because this implicature need a special knowledge about what is “ Navajo” the
implicature include as particularized conversational implicature.
Data 10
Context : Claire and her assistant Vivian are controlling the dinosaurs from the
control room, They are watching the dinosaur just got injection from the screen.
The dinosaurs had made the disturbance and he just got a potion in order to
makes his calm. Claire asked Vivian “how long to move the dinosaur from there”.
Claire : How much longer until they get it out of there?
Vivian : He just got five milligrams of carfentanil.
Claire : Yes, he's very stoned.
From the dialogue above shows that Vivian did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. The utterance that Vivian gives is obscurity to the
question from her assistant Vivian or it was uncooperative. The utterance “He just
got five milligrams of carfentanil”. rising the conversational implicature. Vivian
flouting maxim of manner with makes a statement that obscurity. The non-
observance maxim occurs in this conversation because actually Vivian wants to
Claire know that carfentanil can to makes animals like a stoned.
Vivian actually can answer Claire with the simply answer but Vivian says
ambiguous language which makes the utterance incomprehensible by addressee,
what Vivian says “He just got five milligrams of carfentanil is need to know the
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contexts to understand it. We know that carfentanil is a kind of potion that can
makes animal can sleep for long time (the free encyclopedia). So the meaning of
the implicature that gave by Vivian “means that to moves the dinosaur from there
is needs a long time”. Moreover, to know the context of this conversation we
should have a special knowledge about “Carfentanil”. Then, it belongs to
particularized conversational implicature.
Data 11
Context : Gray and his aunty Claire are in Claire’s office. Gray was asking
Claire to accompany him.
Gray : You're not coming with us?
Claire : Oh, um, I really wish that I could, but tomorrow I can take you into the
control room, show you behind the scenes and all of that. That's... that's
gonna be cool, right?
From the dialogue above shows that Claire did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. Mr Claire does not- observe the maxim of manner.
Claire violating maxim of manner which she gives the information more than
what Gray needs. Gray asked a very simple question, however what he receives
from his Aunt, the meaning of the implicature that gave by Claire is a description
about what they will do tomorrow in order to persuade her nephew.
The non-observance maxim occurs in the conversation because Claire
wants to makes her nephews understand what are the reasons that make’s she
can’t come with the nephews.
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There is no need a special knowledge to know the context of the
conversation. So the implicature in this conversation is classified as generalized
conversational implicature.
Data 12
Context : Karen asking Claire about her children who watch over by Claire.
Karen : Hi, Claire. How's it going?
Claire : Yeah, look. Today turned out to be a really bad day for me. They're in
great hands. They're with my assistant. She's British, so they invented
nannies.
From the dialogue above shows that Claire did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. Claire does not- observe the maxim of manner.
Claire violating maxim of manner which she gives the information more than
what Gray needs.
Karen asked a very simple question, however what he receives from his
aunt, Claire is a protracted description about all of the situations that she faced.
Claire is ambiguous; therefore, she violated the maxim of manner. The non-
observance maxim occurs in the conversation because Claire wants Karen know
the situation that she faced that makes Claire can’t accompanying Karen’s
children. The meaning of the implicature that gave by Claire have two
interpretations: 1.Claire had such a bad day 2. She explains that Karen’s children
are in a great hands because they with Claire’s assistant. Claire is ambiguous;
therefore, she violated the maxim of manner. There is no need a special
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knowledge to know the context of the implicature. So the implicature in this
conversation is classified as generalized conversational implicature.
Data 13
Context : Lowery and Claire are in the control room, they are talking about
animals who just got injection.
Lowery : So why don't we show a little sympathy? I mean, you do understand
these are actual animals, right?
Claire : Clean up your workspace. It's chaotic.
On the dialogue above, Claire does not observe maxim of cooperative
principle in the conversation The utterance that Claire gives have no correlated to
the question from his friend Lowery or we can said that it was uncooperative..
Claire does violating maxim of relation with blatantly give irrelevant answer with
Lowery’s question. There is no situation that can makes Claire speak unclearly
like that Claire can simply answer question with yes or no , but Claire replies with
saying “ Clean up your workspace. It's chaotic”. ”. It is not relevant at all. In this
example Claire’s answer is by no means irrelevant to the Lowery’s question. One
reason why Claire does non-observance the maxim in this conversation is that
Claire is trying to evade the interrogation posed by the Lowery. The meaning of
the implicature that gave by Claire is that “ Claire wants Lowery to clean up his
workspace because the workspace is chaotic.
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There is need a special knowledge to know the context of the conversation
So the implicature in this conversation is classified as generalized conversational
implicature.
Data 14
Context : Zach and his little brother are debating about what will they do, Zach
wants to stay out little longer out of the zoo park but Gray won’t.
Zach : Come on, we can stay out a couple more minutes.
Gray : But they said it was closed.
Zach : Aunt Claire gave us special wristbands, right? We're VIP, dude. Come on.
It'll be fun.
In the conversation above, Zach does not observe the cooperative
principle. Zach flouting the maxim of relation with blatantly gives irrelevant
answer that Gray needs. From the dialogue above shows that Zach not observed
the cooperative principle in the conversation. The utterance that Zach give have
no correlated to the statement from his brother Gray or we can said that it was
uncooperative. The utterance “ Aunt Claire gave us special wristbands, right?
We're VIP, dude. Come on. It'll be fun rising the conversational implicature. Zach
flouting maxim of relation with makes a statement that obscurity. The non-
observance maxim occurs in this conversation because Zach wants his brother to
not worry about the announcement that said the park was closed.
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While, the meaning of the implicature that gave by Zach is implicated that
they don’t have obey the rules that said the park was closed because they are VIP
customers.
To know the context of Zach’s utterance we have to know what VIP is, we
know that VIP is a special service that not all the people can get it and usually VIP
give a free choice to the people who get it, that is why Zach said do not want to
obey the information that said the park was closed. Special knowledge needs to
infer the conversational implicature. The implicature was clearly included as
particularized conversational implicature.
Data 15
Context : Claire asked Zara to brings her nephews back to the hotel because it
was not save if they are out of the hotel.
Claire : Zara. I need you to bring the boys back to the hotel right away.
Zara : I don't know... I've been looking everywhere for them. It's just been quite a
while.
Claire : Slow down. I can't hear you.
From the dialogue above shows that Zara did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. Zara does not- observed the maxim of manner. Zara
violating maxim of manner which she gives the information more than what
Claire needs. The non-observance occurs in this conversation because Zara wants
Calire know the situation that makes she don’t where Claire’s nephews are.
However what she receives from Zara, Zara is a protracted description of her
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situation. The meaning of the impplicature that gave by Zara implicated that” she
do not know where Claire’s nephews because they’ve run off.
There is no need a special knowledge to know the context of the
implicature. So the implicature in this conversation is classified as generalized
conversational implicature.
Data 16
Context : Claire and Owen are talking about the public interest to the dinosaurs,
about new program to pull the interest of the people.
Claire : We've been pre-booking tickets for months. The park needs a new
attraction every few years in order to reinvigorate the public's interest.
Kind of like the space program. Corporate felt genetic modification
would up the "wow" factor.
Owen : They're dinosaurs. "Wow" enough.
From the dialogue above shows that Owen did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. The utterance that Owen gives have no correlated to
the statement of Claire or it was uncooperative. The utterance “ They're dinosaurs
"Wow" enough. rising the conversational implicature. Owen flouting maxim of
manner with makes a statement that obscurity. The non-observance occurs in the
conversation because “ Owen does not interested to listen what Claire said”.
The meaning of the implicature that gives by Owen by said “They're
dinosaurs. "Wow" enough” implicated that Owen do not agree with Claire
statement about to give a dinosaurs a new attraction.
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In this dialogue we can see that there is no situation that can makes Owen
speak unclearly like that, so that Zach is flouting maxim of manner and rise
conversational implicature.there is no need a special knowledge to know the
context of the conversation. So the implicature in this conversation is classified as
generalized conversational implicature.
Data 17
Context : Gray and his aunty Claire are in the car, they are running from
dinosaurs, suddenly the dinosaurs passed into the car and Claire killed it. Claire
afraid that her nephew’s Gray see that accident, because Claire thinks that Gray
is too young to see the accident.
Claire : Are you boys okay? Did you see that?
Gray : I can't wait to tell Mom.
Claire : Please, no. Do not tell your mother about that, ever.
From the dialogue above shows that Gray did not observe the cooperative
principle in the conversation. Zach is flouting maxim of manner. The utterance
that Gray give have no correlated to the question from his aunty or we can said
that it was uncooperative. The utterance “I can't wait to tell Mom”. rising the
conversational implicature. Gray flouting maxim of manner with makes a
statement that obscurity. The non-observance maxim occurs in this conversation
because Gray want to say he is already see but with ambiguous words.
The meaning of the implicature that gives by Gray implicated that he is
already saw what his aunt asked about. There is no need a special knowledge to
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know the context of the imlicature. So the implicature in this conversation is
classified as generalized conversational implicature.
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CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
Based on the analyzing, The research analyses four cooperative principles
which are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of manner and maxim of
relation in the movie. Most of conversational implicature happen because flouting
the maxim of manner and maxim of relation. Furthermore, this research also
analyzes at types of non-observance maxim which are flouting a maxim, violating
a maxim, infringing a maxim, opting-out a maxim, and suspending a maxim. Most
of non-observance maxim that occurs are flouting a maxim and violating a
maxim. In addition, based on the analyzing, the non-observance maxim occurs in
the conversation in the movie because many of the characters in the movie often
give an obscurity information or obscurity answer that makes the conversation
non-observance the maxim.
Moreover, this research also contains that each implicature has the
meaning within and to know the meaning of each implicature depends on the
knowledge of the speaker. That is why in the conversational implicature there are
Particularized conversational implicature and generalized conversational
implicature. Particularized conversational implicature need a special knowledge of
the participants to understand it. It is opposite with generalized conversational
implicature. Hence, the participants have different views of the context of
situation around the events. Additionally, sometimes the participants feel that the
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questions are not important to be answered truthfully whereas if it happens, the
conversations disobey cooperative principles. It can be found in the conversations
in the movie which is the writer analyzed. Finally In the analysis of the research,
found 9 generalized conversational implicature and 8 particularized
conversational implicature.
B. Suggestions
Based on the explanation, to close this graduating paper the writer proposes some
suggestions as follow:
1. Study about conversational implicature is important to learn, because in
this study we can know what is another people exactly means. That is why
students actually should learn about this study further.
2. In order to analyzing the conversational implicature, students can use so
many media. Movie is one of a good corpus, because in movies there are
so many conversations that usually have conversational implicature.
3. By understanding of conversational implicature, people will be more
understandable in communication process in their daily life.
Finally, this subject can be one of the references for the students in English
major who want to analyze the similar subject.
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