Implicature In The Presidential Elections Debate Between Barack Obama and John McCain

Abstract

This study deals with imp;icature in the presidential elections debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. The aims of this study are (1) to describe kinds of implicature in presidential elections between Barack Obama and John McCain (2) to derive the dominant type of implicature used in presidential elections between Barack Obama and John McCain. The technique used in this study was library research, and was conducted at the library of UMSU at jalan Muchtar Basri No.3 Medan by using descriptive qualitative method. The data of this study were taken from in the presidential elections between Barack Obama and John Mccain on September 26th 2008. There are !8 ssentance. The finding of this study showed that there were three types of implicature found in the presidential elections debate between Barack Obma and John McCain, namely, conversations implicature, generalized implicature, particularizwd implicature. There are three types of implicature used in presidential elections debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. The total percentage of each types of implicature was 5% or 27,8% of conversational, 8% or 44,4% of generalized, 5% or 27,8% of particularized. So the most dominant types of implicature of the presidential elections devate between Barack Obama and John McCain is generalized implicature tipes