THE ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE IN “ONWARD” MOVIE

Abstract

This study aim to identify the utterances that contain conversational implicature
that produce between two characters in Onward movie. In this research the writer
analyze the utterances produce by Ian and Barley which contain conversational
implicature with the hidden meaning based Grice’s theory. The writer use
qualitative method to help while collecting data and analyzing the data. The
benefits of used that method in this research is the writer can easily collected the
data and analyze the data. The writer use theory from Grice about conversational
implicature. The data were collected and analyzed based the maxim and analyze
the hidden meaning that produced by Ian and Barley during their conversation in
that movie. The result shows that there are fifteen data that contain of
conversational implicature found on Onward movie. There are 10 utterances that
classified as maxim of quantity, 3 utterances classified as maxim of quality, 1
utterance classified as maxim of manner, and 1 utterance as maxim of relation. The
writer also concludes that conversation that occurs in Onward movie contain
implied meaning that means Ian, Barley, Bronco, Mom and Ian’s friends always
saying the fact, they are answers the question quite informative, relevant with the
question and avoid the ambiguity.