Abstract

English children story book is written aimed at boosting their English reader’ proficiency as well as their performance in reading. This study is conducted to analyze the conversational implicature recognized in children story book. The object of the study is the story entitled Rumpelstiltskin published by Indian publisher. This study is conducted aimed at finding kinds of conversational implicature recognized in the Young Learner’s story book.
 Children story book written in English is published to help them learn English. English in Indonesia is as the first foreign language learnt while other countries within Asian continent have English as their second language. TEFL in Indonesia needs more time to make Indonesian students accustomed to use English in their daily conversation.
 Book is written in many genres and one of it is narrative. Narrative text type is commonly found in the story therefore the author used their imagination in order to help the readers build their own imagination. Building imagination is part of the activity to help children to be creative. The children are still on their growing period therefore they need many stimulus to help them gain more information stored in their brain.
 India is one of Asian’s country which English as their second language therefore Indian people speak English better than Indonesian. Though Indian as a country is similar to Indonesia in terms of population but they are more productive in using English. Indonesian people should learn from Indian people in using English since English language is used formally at public places including school. Indian authors are also more productive in writing and one of the writing that I analyze in this study is the children’s story belongs to Young Learner’s series. I chose Indian book because I believe that children’s reader will learn and understand English language easily.
 Keywords: reading, English story book, conversational implicature

Highlights

  • Reading skill is one of English skills that the students should master

  • The unit of analysis in this study is the implicature recognized in sentences written in children’s story book entitled Rumpelstiltskin based on Grice Maxim theory

  • There are 20 (41.67%) conversational implicature belongs to Maxims of Quality (Q1) because they meet the characteristic of maxims of quality those are telling the truth and believe that what has been told is true, for instances are: Once, there was a poor Miller whose greatest treasure was his beautiful daughter it means that it is true that the poor Miller has a beautiful daughter who he admires and cares for

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INTRODUCTION

Reading skill is one of English skills that the students should master. Learning English does not mean that they have to be passive learners on the contrary the students are expected to be active learners. By definition what is meant with Implicature is a proposition that is based on the interpretation of the language use and its context of communication in a bound that the participants can interpret the interpretation of an utterance and from what the speakers literally said This relates with speaker’s meaning because the listener will try to interpret based on the speaker’s meaning. Levinson (as cited from Prillia in 2017) said that context is important in learning pragmatics because pragmatics is an ability of language users to pair sentences with context in which they would be appropriate (1985:24) Another linguist, Leech wrote that (as cited in Prillia, 2017) context deals with relevant aspects of the physical or social settings of an utterance. Kinds of context There are four kinds of context according to Hasan Lubis (1993, as cited from Prillia, 2017) namely:

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