| dc.description.abstract | People communicate each other in daily activities in different ways. Some of
them literally say what they want to say, but others indirectly say their intended
meaning by using implicature in their conversation. Implicature is used by people to
indicate that they have an implied meaning the others should understand and the use
of implicature leads them to flout the maxim of Cooperative Principle.
Understanding implicature is important to minimize misunderstanding between two
participants in a conversation and the possibility of making wrong inference by the
addressee.
The object of this study is Mimi and Eunice comic strips since it presents
language phenomena where implicature is used by the characters in the comic strips.
Therefore, this research is held to find out the implied meaning of the characters by
analysing the utterances that flout the maxims of Cooperative Principle in accordance
with the context of situation in the comic strips. This study employs qualitative and
quantitative research. Qualitative method is applied to describe the data in the form
of utterances in the dialogue sand quantitative one is used to shows the statistical
calculation on the number of each kind of flouting of maxims found in the Mimi and
Eunice comic strips.
Based on the result of the flouting maxims analysis, there are 22 utterances
that flout single maxim and 1 utterance that flouts double maxims. There are 11
utterances flout the maxim of Quality, 2 utterances flouts the maxim of Quality, 4
utterances flout the maxim of Relevance and 7 utterances flout the maxim of
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Manner.The result shows that the characters use implicature to indicate that they
have implied meanings. The use of implicature makes them flout the maxims of
Cooperative principle. The flouting of the maxims of Cooperative Principle may
cause misunderstanding and wrong inference that the addressee probably made if the
addressee do not understand the implied meaning of the speaker. | en_US |
