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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThrough this research the writer wanted to find out further about child
language acquisition, aimed at the acquisition of pragmatic of a four-year-old
Indonesian boy, focusing on speech acts and implicature. Children can make
adults do what they want them to do. Moreover, sometimes they do not mention
what they want explicitly, but they already make adults understand what they
really want them to do. The research was done by questioning about what types of
speech acts occur in the boy?s utterances and find out about the existence of
implicature, what is the implicature and what is the function of it (or what the boy
up to by implicating that intended meaning), and find out about what types of
speech acts acquired by the boy and also about the acquisition of implicature by
the boy. The data was collected by using natural and elicitation method, however
the elicitation method was not really useful because most of the data collected are
collected naturally. In analyzing the data the writer used theories of speech act and
implicature proposed by George Yule (1997). Furthermore, the result of the
analysis took the writer to a conclusion that the boy (Kluivert) already acquire the
four of the five speech act classifications proposed by Yule, they are
representatives speech acts, expressives speech acts, directives speech acts and
commissive speech acts, while the kind of speech act that is not found in the
utterances produced by Kluivert is that declaratives speech act. Kluivert also
acquired the idea of implicature, most of the implicature produced by Kluivert are
used to get what he wanted.