ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE FOUND IN THE “GIFTED” MOVIE

ABSTRACT: Verbal communication is one of the important parts of humans‟ life. One study that deals withverbal communication is pragmatics. The writers choose the ‘gifted’ movie as the data because it talks aboutsome words that are implied by the speaker in the daily conversation between people who are close. It isnecessary to study how the implicature is working, in order to understand what the utterances in the movieimplied. The objective of the study is to examine the function of conversational implicature in the “Gifted”movie. This study employs a descriptive qualitative method. The source of data from the “gifted” movie is fromthe script that the writers take from Netflix. The duration of this movie is 1 hour 41 minutes. The data werecollected by identifying, classifying, examining, describing, explaining, drawing a conclusion. Therefore, thisstudy applies the theory of Tsuda. The result of this study indicates that the writers examine the movie founddifferent assumptions based on Tsuda‟s theory such as violation of Grice‟s cooperative principle, power andsolidarity, and joking indirect conversation. It was found that changes the topic that the characters have beendone. However, the functions themselves are influenced by the interpretation of the writers as the listeners orreaders.

Keywords -Tsuda theory, The gifted movie, Conversational Implicature