The study of conversational implicature in Usman Ali’s The Prisoner: A Pragmatic Perspective.

Abstract

The study, with the intention of obtaining a deep comprehension towards meaning, has analyzed the conversational implicature in Usman Ali’s play The Prisoner (2018) by applying Theory of Implicature by Paul Grice (1975). Conversational Implicature is the phenomenon wherein, a speaker says one thing and thereby conveys something else. Besides Implicature, functions of implicated utterances have been identified in the light of Speech Act Theory. The study resulted in to achieve forms of implicature with respect to flouting of maxims of quantity, quality, relation and manner. The researcher also identified two types of conversational implicature: (1) generalized implicature (2) and particularized implicature along with functions of implicated utterances.