An Introduction to Discourse Analysis - Journal Article Review [5]

Title                             : Conversational Implicature of Indonesian Students in Daily Communication

Researcher                  : Annisa Martini

Year of Publication    : 2018

Source                         : Indonesian EFL Journal, Volume 4(1), Pages 93-100

DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v4i1.889

Objectives               : To analyze the types of conversational implicature made by Indonesian students in their daily conversation and the functions constructed by Indonesian students in their conversational implicature.

Method                 : The method used in this research is qualitative research involved 16 English department students to be the participants. The research concerns in natural context such as when the students use their language in their daily conversation. The data were collected through observation and recording.

Results                    : From six recordings, the researcher found 80 utterances belonging to the two types of conversational implicature, namely generalized conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature. The results show 32 data or 40% belonging to generalized conversational implicature and 48 data or 60% belonging to particularized conversational implicature. The research revealed three functions of conversation, there are violation of Grice’s cooperative principle, power and solidarity, and joking indirect expression. The function itself can be influenced by the situation in communication. So, the conversational implicature can be occurred in a conversation especially in natural context. Therefore, there has no principle to use the language widely, because as many as people use the language appropriate with their needs.

Comments          : For me, this journal has a well-written structure that makes readers will understand the report of the research easily. Moreover, the language used are also appropriate for the research context. In addition, the results of this research can help readers to understand more about conversational implicature. The one that I noticed is this journal prefer using left alignment to using justified text. The use of left alignment is commonly used for body text to make it easier to read. Nevertheless, I think this journal will be neater if it uses justified text.