Conversational Implicature in the Novel (Emergency Death) by Adel Al-Dosari

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate a narrative text by a Saudi writer who has established himself in the Saudi cultural scene. The writer studied and analyzed the dialogistic implication in the novel "Emergency Death" by Adel Al-Dosari by applying the interactive approach to the study. The writer used narration and dialogue to communicate between the narrative characters. In this study, the writer applied the principle of cooperation for the theory of dialogistic implication according to Grice, which is (the rule of quantity, the rule of quality, the rule of appropriateness, the rule of method). The research was divided into an introduction and a preface, and four chapters. The preface dealt with defining the writer and his novel, and the emergence and development of the dialogistic implication. Each chapter dealt with one of the four rules of the principle of cooperation. The research focused on the narrative's violation of these rules, and its failure to adhere to the typical implication, or the example in which the meaning of the speech matches the speaker's intention, to go beyond the direct literal meaning to the hidden implicit meaning produced by the dialogistic implication.