Conversational Implicature in Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone Movie and its Application in Teaching Speaking

Abstract

This research is aimed to analyze types of conversational implicature used by the main character in the movie entitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and to describe the application of dialogues related to conversational implicature used by the main character in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in teaching speaking. This study employs descriptive qualitative research methods. The source of data is dialogues containing conversational implicature spoken by the characters in movie. The researcher uses observation in collecting the data and then analyzed the data in some steps. The result of data analysis shows that there are 17 of conversational implicature used by the main character in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone movie containing two types of conversational implicature. There are 9 (53%) utterances containing generalized conversational implicature and 8 (47%) utterances containing particularized conversational implicature. The application of dialogues related to conversational implicature is in teaching speaking for the second grade students of Junior High School. One of the English materials that taught in junior high school is expressing asking and giving obligation, suggestion and prohibition