A CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS ON J.K.ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS:

ABSTRACT

The title of this paper is A CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS ON J.K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS: A PRAGMATIC STUDY. In this paper, the writer discusses conversational implicature in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The objectives of the study are to identify the implicature utterances uttered by the characters in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, to describe the implied meaning uttered by the characters in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and to describe the cooperative principles occur in the conversation of the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

 

 In this study, the writer applies qualitative research method. The data are gotten in written form and conversational implicature uttered by the characters in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The source of data is from the novel entitled Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the supporting data are knowledge and comprehension of the writer as the researcher and theories related with this study. In method of collecting data, the writer uses “recording technique” (teknik sadap) as the basic technique, the first continuing technique is “non participant observing technique” (teknik simak bebas libat cakap), and is continued by “noting technique” (teknik catat). Meanwhile, in method of analyzing data, the writer uses contextual research to analyze the data and in analyzing conversational implicature, the writer uses Grice theory. Grice theory is about conversational implicature generated by four maxims. Those are maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation and maxim of manner.

In this analysis, the writer finds 64 conversational implicatures in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that break the maxims. There are 17 (26.6%) conversational implicatures that break maxim of quantity, 4 (6.3%) that breaks maxim of quality, 29 (45.3%) that break maxim of relation and 14 (21.8%) that break maxim of manner. By breaking the maxims, the characters’ utterances have certain expression to imply their utterances. The implied meaning of the conversational utterances refers to expression of agreement, refusal, acceptance, denial, command and announcement expression. The characters does not adhere the maxims so they break the rules of the maxim such as in maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation and maxim of manner.