AN ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE FOUND IN THE MOVIE “THE HUNGER GAMES”

This study aims at describing the conversational implicature found in the movie The Hunger Games. The writer used the qualitative method to analyze the data. The writer applies one theory of conversational implicature proposed by Grice (1975), Yule (1996). From data analysis, it can be seen that there are four types of conversational implicature found in the movies, namely (1). generalized conversational implicature, (2) particularized conversational implicature, (3) scalar implicature, and (4) conventional implicature. Furthermore, implicature that appears in the dialogues in terms of emphasis statement, affirmation, commanding, hope, uncompromising, In addition, there are some forms of speech that were different from the meaning intended by the character in their utterancee that contained implicature during conversation in the hunger games movie. Among those implicatures, it was found that the implicature affirmation and hopefullness found most frequently. Context that influence most commonly found is epistemic context. Keywords : conversational implicature, implicature, type of conversational implicature