IMPLICATURE AND POLITENESS IN SUMBAWANESE DAILY CONVERSATIONS

Abstract

This study investigated the use of implicatures in Sumbawanese daily conversations. In this study, an issue to be investigated was in how the normal way of using implicatures in Sumbawanese daily conversations. Further, this study attempted to analyze the degree of politeness on each implied utterance from native speakers of Samawa language, dialect of Taliwang. This research employed descriptive qualitative method. The purposive sampling had been applied for taking samples toward this study. Conversational Analysis (CA) was used to analyze the data. Data were collected by using the recording of Sumbawanese daily conversations, dialects of Taliwang. The results showed that implicatures which were expressed in Sumbawanese daily conversation, dialect of Taliwang had no always correlated to politeness. Instead, implicature could also lead to impoliteness. Degree of politeness was provided to analyze of politeness in implied expressions. In addition, some others factors were included on explicit performative also were identified in influencing whether expression of implicatures could interpret as im/politeness, involved; tone of voice, the choice of adverb, mood, and gesture. This research wasalso expected to contribute more to Samawa language’s learning materials in particular and to the relation between language and society in any language in common.

Keywords: Implicature, Politeness, Conversational Analysis