Transform : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning
Vol 10, No 1 (2021): Transform (March, 2021)

Conversational Implicature in Dialogue of “Layar Terkembang” Novel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana

Tika Mulyani (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Meisuri Meisuri (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Widya Andayani (Universitas Negeri Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Feb 2023

Abstract

This research dealt with ConversationalImplicature in Dialogue of Layar TerkembangNovel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana based on Grice’sTheory and it was aimed to finding out the types ofconversational implicature, and to describe whythe certain type of conversational implicaturebecomes dominant. This research was conductedby using descriptive qualitative method. Thesource of the data was taken from LayarTerkembang novel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana,Then the dialogue of the novel as the data for theresearch. The findings showed that there were twotypes of conversational implicature in theprocedures namely Generalized ConversationalImplicature belong to 33 utterances andParticularized Conversational Implicature belongto 36 utterances. So, the most dominant types ofconversational implicature between the maincharacters in the novel was particularizedconversational implicature because it morecontained ambiguity, implicit meaning, conveyedan additional meaning, and their response did notrelevant with every question and also it cannoteasily to understand what he/she was talkingabout

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jelt

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Humanities Electrical & Electronics Engineering Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

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Transform Journal is an open-access electronic journal that supports research in the field of Linguistics, Literature, and English Language Teaching. The aim of the journal is to publish academic research on applied linguistics relevant to actual issues and to be a publication platform for original ...