Institusion
Universitas Bung Hatta
Author
Kheke, Vera Burqi
Temmy, Thamrin
Nova, Rina
Subject
PR English literature
Datestamp
2023-08-02 01:27:23
Abstract :
This study aims to describe the types of conversational implicature and the
violation maxim occurs in the ?Oh, Brothers! Comic strips serials. They are two
mainly theories used, the conversational implicature proposed by Yule (1996) and
the cooperative principles proposed by Grice (1975). This research applies
descriptive qualitative method.The objects of the research are the utterances
containing implicature in 30 serials of ?Oh, Brother!?. Thefinding of the research
shows that there are 36 conversational implicature which is classified into 5 data
for Generalized Implicature and 31 data for Particularized Implicature. For
theViolations of Maxims,the finding shows that there are 43violation. They are9
data for Maxim of Quality, 13 data for Maxim of Quantity, 9 data for Maxim of
Relevance and 12 data for Maxim of Manner. Particularized Implicature can be
identified when the readers rely on the context of the comic to interpret the
meaning, while Generalized Implicature occurs when the utterance convey the
whole meaning of the implicature, so the readers do not need to rely much on the
context to interpret it. According to the Cooperative Principle point of view, the
Violations of Maxims can be varyingly used to infer the implication of the
utterance. The writer concludes that, the violations are used to: (1) deliberately
persuade the addresser to infer some implications: (2) showing irrelevance
understanding between speaker?s background knowledge and the addresser?s: (3)
deceiving the addresser to hide something.
Keywords: Conversational Implicature, Particularized and Generalized
Implicature, Violation of Maxims.