PRAGMATICS
Subject: Discourses Analysis
Name : Julinda NPM : 111210020 Course Code : 132-EL055-M1 Lecturer : Frangky Silitonga S.Pd, M.Si
PUTERA BATAM UNIVERSITY
2014
ABSTRACT
This paper aimed to elaborate the implied meaning in the utterances of the speakers in a daily conversation and disclose the effect of using Conversational Implicature and its maxims. Something very important here was the context of the speech was delivered, and paid attention to the background knowledge of people whom involved in it. To analysis meaning implied in a conversation is the important thing by which describing and explaining the meaning of each utterance (datum) which is delivered for attention in context as a whole, rather than analyzed a particular sentence separately without a background conversation.
Keyword: Pragmatics Theory, Utterance, Conversational Implicature, Speech act, Intention.
INTRODUCTION
I.I. Background of study.
According to (Olanike: 2012), Discourse Analysis is the branch of linguistics that deals with the study and application of approaches to analysis written, spoken or signed language. And based on (Foucault 1972: 42), Discourse analysis as practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak. In simpler terms, discourses are more than just linguistic: they are social and ideological practices which can governs the ways in which people think, speak, interact, write and behave.
Discourse analysis is used in many fields, including; Linguistics, Sociolinguistic, Anthropology, Cultural studies, Psychology, Communications, Sociology, Geography, Human-computer interaction, Law, Medicine, Public policy, Business, Tourism studies.
`There is no agreement among linguists as to the use of the term discourse in that some use it in reference to texts, while others claim it denotes speech which is for instance illustrated by the following definition. Discourse: a continuous stretch of
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