analyze because there are many non-observance maxim of cooperative principle on verbal interaction in these interview. For example:
Walters : Do you feel now that you still have the support of your
people? Assad
: if you don‟t have the support of the people you cannot be in this position.
The conversation above, Assad seems does non-observance maxim of cooperative principle because he does flouting maxim of relation by not
answering the question relevantly. Walter‟s question needs „yes‟ or „no‟ answer but Assad
replay it with a sentence which contain „yes‟ or „no‟ answer. By answering „if you don‘t have the people........be in this position‟ Assad justifies
that he has people to support him as President but he does not say it directly. The example of conversation above clearly indicates that implicit
meaning often found in this interview transcript. Therefore, this research quite attract to discuss because involved influential people who have a great passion to
achieve their aims even though the world claim that he is a dictator. He also has good accomplishment to persuade people for some support to raise their goals.
B. Focus of the Research
This research focused on discourse and exceedingly on maxim of Cooperative Principle that are not observed to induce conversational implicatures
and to describe the intended meaning in dialogue on Bashar Al-Assad and Barbara Walters “ABC‟s Barbara Walters and Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad” which
posted on
official ABC
News website
http:abcnews.go.comInternationaltranscript-abcs-barbara-walters-interview- syrian-president-basharstory?id=15099152
C. Research Question
Regarding to the background of study above, the research questions may be formulated as follows:
1. What kind of non-observance maxim of cooperative principle that induce
conversational implicature in the dialogue? 2.
How is the non-observance of maxim generating conversational implicatures in
ABC‟s Barbara Walters and Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad interview?
3. What are the meanings of conversational implicatures describe in the
dialogue?
D. Significance of the research
This research is expected to contribute some advantages for society especially the student who will do the same research to expand the knowledge
about analysis implied meaning. In addition, this research is practically expected to one of useful references for the reader who want to perform a further study
related to pragmatics study especially in the use of conversational implicature.
E. Research Methodology
This research uses the qualitative case study. According to Merriam 1998, as quoted by Nunan, this method used to define intensively, holistic description
and analysis of a single entity, phenomenon, or social unit. Case studies are particularistic, descriptive, and heuristic and rely heavily on inductive
reasoning in handling multiple data sources
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. Data will be analyzed of the Cooperative Principle that is not observance maxims to draw conversational
implicature in the dialogue ABC Interview between Barbara Walters and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad interview on ABC, Dec 27 2011.
1. Objective of the study
Based on the research questions above, the purposes of this research are: a.
To know the types of non-observance maxims of Cooperative Principle that generate conversational implicature in the dialogue
ABC‟s Barbara Walters and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad interview.
b. To find the reason why the utterances can be said as the implicatures.
c. To describe the meaning of the conversational implicatures.
2. Technique of Data Collecting and Data Analysis
This research uses bibliography research method. Bibliography is using written sources to gain the data.
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Data gained by using data card which to the Grice Cooperative Principle. In this research the data are
collected by following steps: a.
Read the transcript text. b.
Give mark the utterances that might be conceived conversational implicatures.
c. Write the data gained and numbered into data card.
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David Nunan, Research Method in Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. p.77
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Edi Subroto, Pengantar Metoda Penelitian Linguistik Struktural. Surakarta:Sebelas Maret University Press, 1992. p. 77
After the data have been collected, the next step is data analysis. it is to get specific data that focused to analyzed. The steps are taken as
follows: a.
Classify and descripting the utterances to maxim of Cooperative Principle.
b. Descripting the intended meaning of the conversational
implicature. c.
Make the conclusion based on the description analysis. 3.
Instrument of the research This research uses data card as instrument of the research to classify
and identify the data which gained from interview transcript. Then, the data which contained non-
observance maxims of Grice‟s Cooperative Principle are analyzed.
4. Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis of this research is the transcript an interview of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad entitled
“ABC‘s Barbara Walters and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
” that downloaded from ABC News official website.
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