Abstract

P. Ramlee is a great artist who is so talented where his films are still shown on television. P. Ramlee has used the medium of film to convey important messages to the public. The objective of this study are to identify the implicit utterances of P. Ramlee's film as well as to analyze the thinking, intellectuality and cultural influence of the Malay community in P. Ramlee's film. This study is a qualitative study, a descriptive design and content analysis by using corpus data of dialogue transcriptions of P. Ramlee’s films. Data were collected based on primary and secondary data and all the data were analysed based on three stages which are script semantics, resonance semantics and inquisitive semantics. Moreover, Relevans Theory of Sperber and Wilson (1986, 1995) was used in this study. This study also applies the philosophy, common sense, knowledge from other fields in oder to get the concrete answers for every lexical that are used in the films. The results of the study found that there are thoughts, common sense and cultural influence of the Malay community in the implicit conversations and found each lexical used needs to be analysed by using inquisitive semantic approach.

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