วารุณี แซ่เอี๊ย. An analysis of Conversational Implicatures : A Case Study of the Film Breaking Dawn. (English). Buriram Rajabhat University. Academic Resource Center.. : Buriram Rajabhat University, 2018.
An analysis of Conversational Implicatures : A Case Study of the Film Breaking Dawn
Abstract:
In pragmatics, conversational implicature is known to account for the foremost perception of more being communicated than being said. The purposes of this research were 1) to investigate types of conversational implicature produced in the film, and 2) to examine the results of producing conversational implicature in terms of being understood by the hearer (success) and being misunderstood by the hearer (failure) in the film. The samples were the utterances drawn from dialogues in the film Breaking Dawn. The Statistics used to analyzed by a descriptive method using content analysis. This research was conducted in line with the theory of Grices conversational implicature (1975), especially in terms of conversational maxims. The results revealed that there were 60 conversational implicature produced through the film and two types of conversational implicature were found. Moreover, particularized conversational implicatures (PCI) were more frequently produced (f= 52, 86.67%), and generalized conversational implicature (GCI) were less frequently produced (f= 8, 13.33%). Almost all conversational implicature found in film dialogues were understood by the listeners (f= 59, 98.33%). Only one particularized conversational implicature was examined being misunderstood by the hearer (f= 1, 1.67%). In addition, the conversational implicature were most produced under the principle of flouting maxim of quality. Additionally, sarcasm and metaphor were the major tools used by the speakers to produce particularized conversational implicatures.