Implicature within Script Play of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Telling People to Change Their Behaviour Through Implications: An Implicature Analysis on Covid-19 Public Service Announcements in Indonesia

“…Studies on conventional implicature are scarce, even in studies that investigates students' comprehension of implicatures. At most, conventional implicature appears on literature when researchers tried to identify types of literature, such as in Budiaty (2014) and Megawati (2019). The findings of this study illustrated the distinction clearly through the timeline of the public service announcements' publications.…”

“…Studies on implicatures have mostly focused in the language learning classroom context, either in evaluating students' understanding and comprehension of implicatures (Alsmari, 2020;Derakhshan & Eslami, 2020) or investigating the effect of certain teaching models or learning technologies in the teaching of this pragmatics feature (Abdelhafez, 2016;Samaje & Ariyanmanesh, 2018). Many previous studies that investigated types of implicatures did not look at public service announcements, but works of literature such as The Pride and Prejudice novel (Wibawa, 2017), Princess Diaries novel (Budiaty, 2014), Beauty and the Beast movie (Tiara, 2018), Oedipus Rex play script (Megawati, 2019) and poems written by Audre Lorde (Igwedibia, 2017). Even then, the first three studies were dissertations, with the fourth being a conference proceeding and the fifth being the only peerreviewed journal article.…”

“…Similarly, script for plays or theatres are frequently analysed with psychoanalysis, literature and even theology, but seldom with pragmatics. Megawati (2019) addressed that gap by analysing the implicature within the script of Oedipus Rex, revealing passages that contained conventional or conversational implicatures. Few, if any, studies ever explored implicatures in contexts beyond the classroom or learning pragmatics.…”