Conversational Implicature Analysis of a Classroom Interaction at the English Department of Tegal Pancasakti University

Abstract

Prihatin, Yoga. 2011. Conversational Implicature Analysis of a Classroom Interaction at the English Department of Tegal Pancasakti University The present study is meant to report an investigation of the general situation of implicature in a classroom interaction of a speaking class at the English Department of Tegal Pancasakti University. The result of the analysis shows that the interaction contains two kinds of implicature; particularized implicature and generalized implicature. Particularized implicatures occurred when there were particular features of the context existed whereas generalized implicatures occurred when the utterances did not depend on particular features of the context, but was instead typically associated with the proposition expressed. The occurrence of particularized implicatures is 23% or 16 of the total occurrences of implicatures (69) and generalized implicatures occurred 53 times or 77 % of the total occurrences. It can be concluded that particularized implicatures rarely occurred in the classroom interaction. It means some special factor inherent in the context of utterance is not normally carried by the sentence used. The study also provides a detailed description of how the maxims occurred in the classroom interaction. In this study the violation of maxims of quantity, quality, relation and manner were violated. Dealing with the findings above, it is suggested that there is extensive work waiting for those who are interested in this field to examine. Keywords : particularized implicature, generalized implicature, maxims