Implicatures found in various selected English song lyrics and the listener's responses of the songs

This thesis aims to seek and analyze the Implicature and the types of Implicature found in the selected song lyrics and the listener's responses. The data in this thesis were collected from the selected song lyrics from various artists obtained from Google by searching on it and the listener's responses found in the comment under the selected song's music video on Youtube. In this study, the researcher uses Gricerian Implicature theory as the theoretical framework, which provides about Implicature definition and the types of Implicature (Generalized CI, Particularized CI, Conventional Implicature, and Scalar Implicature). This study uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The descriptive study in the textual analysis was applied in this thesis to analyze the utterance/song lyrics of the selected song lyrics. The data were collected by first searching the song lyrics from various artists on Google and then searching the listener's responses in the comment section of the selected song's music video on Youtube. The song lyrics were then analyzed by identifying the implicatures of each utterance in the song lyrics. The analysis continued by analyzing the Implicature and categorizing the types of Implicature of the listener's responses. And the last, the analysis continued by identifying the types of Implicature of the selected song lyrics. This study results that all of the types of Implicature are found in the selected song lyrics and also in the listener's responses. The most frequent types that found after analyzed the song lyrics and the listener's responses are Generalized conversational Implicature and Particularized conversational Implicature.