Aimai Dalam Implikatur Percakapan Bahasa Jepang: Kajian Pragmatik

Abstract

This research deals with aimai in Japanese conversation implicature. For hiding conflict and dissimulating disagreement, Japanese people use vagueness called aimai. Speech implicature happens for the offense of conversation principles. Aimai concept as the part of norm and culture of Japanese people is very related to implicature that it is proper to be investigated. The data resource for this research is Kimi ni Todoke movie, and the analized data is the conversation in the movie. The theories used in this research are the theory of cooperative principle of Grice, the theory of politeness principle by Leech, implicature, and aimai. This is a qualitative descriptive research using heuristic analysis technique. The results of this research are: 1. Conversational implicatures caused by the offense of cooperative principle are: 1) representative implicature 2) Directive implicature 3) expressive implicature 4) comissive implicature 2. The speech implicatures caused by the offense of politeness principle are: 1) representative implicature 2) Directive implicature 3) expressive implicature 4) comissive implicature and the realization is to threaten. Aimai is found only in the offense of cooperative principle seen in explaining, flirting, refusing, protecting, trapping, avoiding, and commanding implicature. Speech implicatures are realized in Kimi ni Todoke movie by breaking the cooperative maxim for there are speaker’s implications and significancies for explaining, informing, commanding, flirting, admitting, complimenting, refusing, promising, avoiding, and blaming. Speech implicatures are realized in Kimi ni Todoke movie by breaking the politeness maxim for there are speaker’s implications and significancies for forcing, blaming, showing, critisizing, threatening, and refusing.

This research deals with aimai in Japanese conversation implicature. For hiding conflict and dissimulating disagreement, Japanese people use vagueness called aimai. Speech implicature happens for the offense of conversation principles. Aimai concept as the part of norm and culture of Japanese people is very related to implicature that it is proper to be investigated. The data resource for this research is Kimi ni Todoke movie, and the analized data is the conversation in the movie. The theories used in this research are the theory of cooperative principle of Grice, the theory of politeness principle by Leech, implicature, and aimai. This is a qualitative descriptive research using heuristic analysis technique. The results of this research are: 1. Conversational implicatures caused by the offense of cooperative principle are: 1) representative implicature 2) Directive implicature 3) expressive implicature 4) comissive implicature 2. The speech implicatures caused by the offense of politeness principle are: 1) representative implicature 2) Directive implicature 3) expressive implicature 4) comissive implicature and the realization is to threaten. Aimai is found only in the offense of cooperative principle seen in explaining, flirting, refusing, protecting, trapping, avoiding, and commanding implicature. Speech implicatures are realized in Kimi ni Todoke movie by breaking the cooperative maxim for there are speaker’s implications and significancies for explaining, informing, commanding, flirting, admitting, complimenting, refusing, promising, avoiding, and blaming. Speech implicatures are realized in Kimi ni Todoke movie by breaking the politeness maxim for there are speaker’s implications and significancies for forcing, blaming, showing, critisizing, threatening, and refusing.