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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

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ISSN: 2222-6990

Exploitation of Grice’s Effective Conversation General Guidelines in The Antara Dua Darjat Film Dialogue

Norhidayu Hasan, Zaitul Azma Zainon Hamzah, Nor Azuwan Yaakob, Fazilah Husin

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i12/11819

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Exploitation refers to conversational contributions that do not meet Grice’s general guidelines of conversation but adhere to the characteristics of effective contributions. This exploitation indicates the use of conversational contributions that do not comply with the CPM but comply with the CP. This CPM guide is sometimes not followed by the participants of the conversation. This study focuses on the exploitation of CPM performed by the Malay community as featured in the film dialogue. Antara Dua Darjat film dialogue is used to descibe how Malay community using conversational contributions that exploit CPM in their daily conversations. The analysis of the study was done using text analysis methods based on Grice's Theory Of Conversation and Relevance Theory. The results of the study found that the exploitation will produce implicatures that are in line with the CP guidelines that is to provide adequate conversational contributions. The use of contributions that exploit CPM also does not lead to misinterpretation of the speaker’s true meaning. The exploitation of CPM detected in selected film dialogues can also reflect the way Malay community deliberately do not comply with the general guidelines of the conversation but produce meaningful conclusions and in line with CP guidelines.

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In-Text Citation: (Hasan et al., 2021)
To Cite this Article: Hasan, N., Hamzah, Z. A. Z., Yaakob, N. A., & Husin, F. (2021). Exploitation of Grice’s Effective Conversation General Guidelines in The Antara Dua Darjat Film Dialogue. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(12), 776–793.