Implicature in the Power of the Dog movie (2021)

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Permatadevi, Thalia Garnis (2022) Implicature in the Power of the Dog movie (2021). Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study examines the implicatures found in the utterances of the four main characters in a film called The Power of The Dog (2021). This film films at has a slow plot and is a western drama genre that has thriller elements in it. In this case, many implicit meanings occur through the utterances between the characters. Therefore, the researcher tries to answer problems related to implicatures. The researcher in this study will answer two problems: (1) What are the types of implicature found in the utterances by the four main characters in the movie entitled The Power of the Dog (2021), and (2) What functions of implicatures are found in the utterances by the four main characters in the movie entitled The Power of the Dog (2021). This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach. This research is related to data analysis which examines the types of implicatures and implicature functions. The data of this study are the forms of utterances uttered by the four main characters in the film. The data is investigated through identification, classification, and interpretation of the implicatures uttered by the four main characters in the film.In this research, the researcher found three types of implicatures. It consists of 26 data, including general conversational implicatures, 40 data, including specific conversational implicatures, and twenty-three data, including conventional implicatures. All types of implicature were found in this study. Furthermore, the researcher found three of the five existing functions consisting of forty-seven data including assertive functions, thirty-five data including directives, and nineteen data including expressive. There are two implicature functions that the researcher did not find, namely, commissive and declarative functions. At the same time, the number of function frequencies is more than the type because some data in the type have more than one function. The results of this study indicate that the implicatures found by the four main characters can create more essential characteristics between characters and make the conversation between characters less extensive.