TYPES OF IMPLICATURE IN INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS USED BY THE ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS AT THE TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

Implicature refers to implied meaning in utterance that can be understood by
indirectly expression. Implicature is used by Grice (1975) to account for what a
speaker can imply, suggest, or mean a distinct from what the speaker says.
Implicature is related to the interpretation of the hearer or to the speaker or the writer.
In informal conversations occurs the hidden meaning of what actually said by the
speakers. This research investigates the types of implicature in Informal
Conversations Used by the English Education Study Program Students at The
Teacher Training and Education Faculty of the University of Bengkulu. It was aimed
to analyze the types of implicature and how the implicature is carried out in the
informal conversations. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The
results of this study show that 1) there are three types of implicature found in the
informal
conversations;
conventional
implicature
implicature,
generalized
conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature, and 2) the
implicature is carried out by the use of generalized conversational implicature and
particularized conversational implicature in the informal conversations. The
conversational implicature is more dominant of implicature (90.5%). The
conventional implicature is less type (9.5%).