CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES IN ‘POLEMIK’ TALK SHOW OF SINDO RADIO

This study deals with the conversational implicatures in ‘ POLEMIK’ talk show of Sindo Radio. The objectives of the study are 1) to find out violating the conversational maxims in three topics by using Grice’s theory; 2) to find the reason using of implicature in the conversational maxim violation. The data of this research were the transcription of audio-recorded dialogues which were taken from three topics during 20014. They are topic of politics, economics and law. The source of data were taken from ‘ Polemik’ talk show program of Sindo Radio. The data were analyzed by descriptive qualitative design.The results of this study shows are violation four conversational maxims found in three topics. The topic of politics and economic are dominantly to violate the quality maxim. These are caused that the interviewees always using the figurative language to response the question. Besides, they also doubtly to give the data. Then the topic of law is dominantly to violate the maxim of manner because in the process of explaining the interview uttered the umbigous words. The reason of using implicature in their utterances various aims however in the topic of economics did not find the implicature of mocking, keeping a secret and praising.