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Conversational Implicatures on Saturday Night Live Talk Show

2022; Academy Publication; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17507/jltr.1301.22

2053-0684

Sri Yulianti, Burhanuddin Arafah, Ummu Rofikah, Andi Muhammad Syafri Idris, Nurfaizah Samsur, Azhariah Nur B. Arafah,

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Conversational implicature seems to be an everlasting concern in pragmatics for its wide-ranging investigation possibility. Applying Gricean’s principles, the present study examined the types of conversational implicatures found in the Saturday Night Live talk show. This research used a qualitative method with a pragmatic approach. The research data were collected from the utterances in Season 46 Episode 5 accessed from MBC's channel (www. saturday night live – NBC.COM). The result indicated that there were two types of conversational implicatures found in Saturday Night Live talk show namely: First, particularized conversational implicature, and second, generalized conversational implicature. We found that the utterances containing particularized implicature outnumbered the ones with generalized implicature. In our interpretation, the dominance of particularized implicature reflects the centrality of the particular context in producing and inferring utterances for meaningful and effective communication.