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

Abstract

This research dealt with Conversational
Implicature in Dialogue of Layar Terkembang
Novel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana based on Grice’s
Theory and it was aimed to finding out the types of
conversational implicature, and to describe why
the certain type of conversational implicature
becomes dominant. This research was conducted
by using descriptive qualitative method. The
source of the data was taken from Layar
Terkembang novel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana,
Then the dialogue of the novel as the data for the
research. The findings showed that there were two
types of conversational implicature in the
procedures namely Generalized Conversational
Implicature belong to 33 utterances and
Particularized Conversational Implicature belong
to 36 utterances. So, the most dominant types of
conversational implicature between the main
characters in the novel was particularized
conversational implicature because it more
contained ambiguity, implicit meaning, conveyed
an additional meaning, and their response did not
relevant with every question and also it cannot
easily to understand what he/she was talking
about