Implicature within Script Play of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.265How to use a DOI?

Keywords

implicature; maxim grice; and stylistic pragmatics

Abstract

Oedipus Rex as has been analyzed from many points of view such as psychoanalysis, literature or even theology. In this research, the Oedipus Rex will be analyzed from the eye of stylistic pragmatics which is implicature. The objective of this research is to reveal the real meaning lying inside the language as the pedagogical purpose. The focus of the analysis is implicature and the sub focus are types of implicature and maxim Grice. The source of data is dialogues within the script play which is collected by library method. Data is then analyzed using descriptive qualitative method to solve factual issues despite of testing hypothesis. The last stage is to present the result using informal method which means presenting result by using words instead of numbers and statistic. The result of analysis shows if there are two kinds of implicature which are implicature conventional and conversational and maxim cooperative, quantitative, qualitative, way and relevancy.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Erna Megawati
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TI  - Implicature within Script Play of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 255
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SN  - 2352-5398
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