期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：12
页码：794-810
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i12/11820
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Implicature can be described as an utterance that has a different meaning from what is presented by the speaker. There is implicature that uses figurative sentence by applying figurative elements, proverbs, metaphors and so forth. Interpretation of the figurative sentence implicature needs to be done by understanding the elements of the figurative or proverb that has been used. Malay community for example often uses figurative sentence implicature in the conversation. This is clearly illustrated in the art of Malay filmmaking that uses a number of figurative sentence implicature dialogue. This study aimed to analyze the meaning of figurative sentence implicature used in Malay films dialogue. A total of five Malay films that is Adnan (2000); Embun (2002); Paloh (2003); Malaya (2007) were selected for this study. The dialogue that is convenient with the objectives of the study were selected to be analyzed based on Relevance Theory. The selected films are qualified films as it was nominated and won the award in the Malaysian Film Festival, International Film Festival, and the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. The study found that there is a figurative sentence implicature in Malay films dialogue. The application of Relevance Theory for data analysis also highlighted the importance of context in understanding the figurative sentence implicature.
