AN ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN INTO THE WOODS MOVIE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to analyse the types of conversational implicature in Into the Woods movie and to identify the maxim violations of conversational implicature in Into the Woods movie. Descriptive qualitative research was used as a type of research to discover and focus on the conversational meaning in the movie Into the Woods. There are some steps to analyse the data: identifying data, classifying data, analysing data, describing data, explaining data, and concluding the data. To focus on the research, the researcher limits the data into 23 data which contains types of conversational implicature and violence of maxim. The results of this study analysis indicated that there were nine types of conversational implicatures in Into the Woods Movie. Then, four data of generalized conversational implicature and five data of particularized conversational implicature. These data have shown in conversations of the movie, some implicatures are found where the characters rally used those two implicature types both implicit or particularized implicature and explicit or generalized implicature. Then, the second analysis on the maxim violation, there were four types of the maxims, they are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation and maxim of manner. There are 14 data including maxim violations. There are six data included maxim of quality, one data included maxim of quantity, three data included maxim of relation, then four data included maxim of manner. The impact of maxim violation is the hurt of someone because others do not comply the cooperative principle. Furthermore, the researcher suggested for other researchers to do the same study with different movie and bigger data to obtain richer results.