Abstract:
This research dealt with pragmatic study that aimed to know how non-observance
maxim generated conversational implicature and to find out conversational
implicature and also the function of conversational implicature itself in David
Interviews President Barack Obama from the Axe Files. The researcher used the
theory of Cooperative Principle proposed by Paul Grice and the theory of Brown
and Levinson for this study. The data were collected by reading the interview
transcript. Descriptive Qualitative method was applied to analyze the collected
data. The result showed that there were nineteen conversational implicature found
in the interview script based on Cooperative Principle Theory. The researcher
found that most of the non-observance of maxim was maxim of quantity, because
both interviewer and interviewees wanted his words were understood completely.
Most of utterances were categorized as general conversational implicature,
because this interview was known not too formal interview because it involved
two friends, so that there were some jokes and implicature that reader could
interpret without specific information. The most function of conversational
implicature as found in the script was give information, it was dominated because
in the interview both interviewer and interviewees gave information about the
topic each other.
