Implicatures Generated from Non-Observances Maxim in The Interview of The Indonesian President

Abstract

The aims of this research are to (1) To find out the types of
conversational implicatures (2) to describe how the implicature exist (to
find out the types of non-observance maxim of cooperative principle)
and (3) To find the purpose of generate implicature. This research was
descriptive qualitative. The data of this research were the dialog in BBC
News Indonesia’s Interview with Joko Widodo. The researcher
obtained the data by note-taking technique. First, the researcher
watched the video interview and make the transcript from the dialogues.
Then, the researcher re-read the transcribed dialogues and classified the
data according to theory of implicature and non-observance maxim of
cooperative principle by Grice. In the data analysis the researcher
applied qualitative data method by Miles and Huberman (2014). The
results of the research found there were 16 particular implicatures
identified out of 18 of data in the dialogue, while the other 2 were
general implicatures. Additionally, the researcher identified a lot of
disregarded maxim forms. The most frequently disregarded maxim was
the flouting of the maxim of quantity. Based on the research findings, it
was observed that Joko Widodo often commits violations of the maxim
of quantity in order to provide additional information or to strengthen
his arguments.