An Analysis of Conversational Implicatures Found in Movie Abraham Lincoln : Vampire hunter. Skripsi. English Education Departement, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University

In much of our conversation, we assume that speakers and listener are generally cooperating with each other. However, in some circumstance, a speaker intends to communicate more than is said, that something must be more than just the words mean. It is an additional meaning called conversational implicature. Conversational implicatures is an interesting thing where it is not a matter of a sentence but instead of an utterance’s meaning. Therefore, in this study, the writer is interested in analyzing the implicature/implicit meaning that are found in the utterances of the three main characters, and the types of conversational implicatures that produced by the three main characters of the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie. The writer used Grice’s theory of conversational implicatures as the basis of the analysis of the study. The utterances containing implicature fall into two categories: generalized conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature. This is a qualitative research which the data of the study is taken from the movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The writer chose Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie because the writer noticed that the utterances produced by the three main characters contain a lot of implicatures. Moreover, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie is a unique movie with an intellegent plot in developing the story about the other life side of the sixteenth president of United States. From the findings, the writer found 104 implicatures from the three main characters: Abraham, mary, and Henry. Between the two types, generalized and particularized converstaional implicatures, generalized conversational implicature take a bigger number 54. Whereas, the other one, the total of particularized converstaional implicatures takes number 50. This study also reveals significant finding that may contribute to the theory of implicature itself and its applications so that it will useful for further reference. Firstly, the study reveals that one single utterance can have two types of conversational implicature. To add, the use of indefinite article ‘a/an’ in a sentence can actually function as cardinal number as it actually refers to ‘one’. Lastly, the theory of indefinite article of the type ‘a/an X’, is typically interpreted according to the generalized conversational implicatures that : an X +> not speaker’s X cannot be genralized in this study since it can be interpreted as the speaker’s X. For the next researchers who are interested in doing similar research, this study will give contribution to comprehend the conversational implicatures. And also this study can give inspiration and guidance for the further researcher to be more careful in doing researc