Relevance theory: an analysis of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?s interview
| Main Author: | Muhamad Sazali |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora
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Daftar Isi:
- This research analyzes an interview done by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton led by Steve Kroft as the correspondent on January 27, 2013. The transcripts are written by online news website, Huftington.com CBS interactive Inc. published a day after the interview. The writer conveys the research by applying Relevance Theory proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson and focusing on the relevance, irrelevant and implicit, explicit meaning produced from the interview. The writer divides the analysis into two parts. First, it is the relevant answers given by Barack Obama and Hillary towards the questions delivered by Steve Kroft. The second, it is the irrelevant answers which appear from the interview. Both the relevance and irrelevance are not only determined by the explicit meaning (explicature), but also by the implicit meaning (implicature). The result conveys that implicit meaning generally produced from the irrelevant utterance. The more irrelevant utterance one stated in a conversation, the more needed to be analyzed what is the true meaning beyond what has been said.