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Abstract
This research aimed to elaborate the implied meaning in the utterances of the characters in Mailer’s two nonfictional novels, The Armies of the Night and The Executioner’s song, and disclose the effect of using conversational implicature and speech act theories. Readers should pay a lot of attention to the background knowledge of the characters whom involved in these two novels. In addition to introduction and conclusion, the thesis is structured in five chapters. The first chapter presents and discusses the pragmatic theory of conversational implicature, proposed by the philosopher H.P. Grice. Chapter II presents Speech Act theory. Chapter III deals with the notion of discourse. Since discourse analysis, as a field of study, is concerned with discourse, it is thus concerned with language, in particular with language use, which is a common definition for pragmatics. In that sense, discourse analysis is a subfield of pragmatics. Chapter IV deals with the life and death of Gary Gilmore. FIS offers readers a more intimate view of a character’s thoughts and feelings. Narrative mode of Mailer’s book is based more on IS and FIS than on DS. Chapter V is devoted to an analysis of the language, modes and roles of the author, the narrator and the self consciously novelistic character Norman Mailer in The Armies of the Night. from the analysis conducted, the researcher finds some utterances which are implied by the speaker and have more than one meaning in speaking. Moreover, the research attempts to illustrate the varying degree of indirectness used by characters and author, and the possible interpretations of indirect utterances made by readers. It also seeks to investigate the manifold linguistic forms and pragmatic aspects, by means of which speaker can use language. So, the thesis answer the question of what are the tools and strategies used by speaker to achieve his/her goal and how can these strategies be successfully interpreted by hearer.