CHANGING TOPIC AS AN EFFECTIVE REFUSAL STRATEGIES: NEW INSIGHT ON CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE

Implicature is a component of speaker meaning that constitutes an
aspect of what is meant in a speaker‘s utterance without being part of what
is said. This Research aimed to find out the types new insight
conversational implicature . To find out changing topic as an effective
refusal strategies of refusal strategies.
The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method as the research
method because the aim of this research is to provide a descriptive analysis
of the data. The data in this research are collected by watching the movie,
and then selected the data will be analyzed one by one using relevant Brown
and Levinson (1978) and Micheal (1967: 51) theory about the research.
The research revealed findings which included research questions
formulated, the characters used different manners in presenting the refusal
strategies. There is a new insight where previous theories did not mention
changing topic as an effective refusal strategies. In refusing the intelocutors,
they tended to choose an indirect strategy by stating changing topic but also
reveals namely to create a sense of humor and give information, Lack of
specific information, while the direct were the least to be used. It was found
that movies has meaning based on the author's intent. The conversational
implicatures in the movie used general conversational implicatures.