Conversational implicature found in Thea Sharrock's "Me Before You" movie

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Rohmah, Cicik Nur (2018) Conversational implicature found in Thea Sharrock's "Me Before You" movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabay.

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Abstract

This research discusses conversational implicature that used by the main characters in the Thea Sharrock’s Me Before You Movie. The aims of this research are to find out the types of the conversational implicature that used by the main characters in the Me Before You movie by applying the Grice theory and the function of language that show the purpose of the main characters’ utterances in the conversational implicature by applying the Holmes theory. In this research, the researcher applied content analysis and descriptive research design. The data are taken from the transcript of Thea Sharrock’s Me Before You Movie. The main theory to analyze the data taken from the theory of Grice and to support the main theory the researcher is applying the Holmes theory in this reserach. As the result of this research, the researcher found 61 data which contain conversational implicature. the researcher finds two types of conversational implicature. they are generalized conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature. The most frequently used by the main characters in the Me Before You movie is generalized conversational implicature consist of 18 data out of 61 data. Also there are six functions that include in conversational implicature. They are referential, expressive, directive, commissive, phatic, metalinguistic.