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 ELT FORUM 3 (1) (2014) 

 

Journal of English Language Teaching 
 

http://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/elt 

 

 

THE MAINTENANCE OF IMPLICATURES IN THE ENGLISH 

TRANSLATION OF DIALOGUES IN THE NOVEL “THE LAND OF FIVE 

TOWERS” (A Descriptive Qualitative Study) 

 

Fatimah  
 

English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Semarang, Indonesia 

 

Article Info 

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Article  History: 

Received in April 2014 

Approved in Mei 2014 

Published in Juni 2014 

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Keywords: 

Translation, Implicatures, 

Novel, “Negeri Lima 

Menara”, “The Land of 

Five Towers” 

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Abstract
 

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This final project is about the implicatures found in the source novel entitled “Negeri Lima Menara” 

written by Ahmad Fuadi that are translated into English by Angie Kilbane entitled “The Land of 

Five Towers”. In understanding the novel, implicature seems harder to be understood since 

implicature means something beyond what is stated; it may emerge many interpretations. Besides, 

the implicatures in this novel actually contain the point or message of the novel. So, it is essentially 

needed for the readers to understand those implicatures for understanding the novel. The objectives 

of this project are to describe the maintenance of implicatures in the English translation of dialogues 

in the novel “The Land of Five Towers” and to explain the achievement of the equivalence in 

meaning. This project was designed as descriptive qualitative. It means that descriptive 

interpretation was used for examining the data on this research so that the conclusions were based 

on that interpretation. The object of this project is the utterances containing implicatures that were 

found in both the Indonesian text as the source text and English text as its translation. 

Documentation method was used to collect the data in this research. The data was in the form of 

printed text in the novel, both Indonesian and English versions. In analyzing the data, observation 

method was done in six steps; they were listing, identifying, classifying, tabulating, interpreting, and 

drawing conclusion. The findings of this project are from 780 utterances that are stated in these 

novels, 40 of them are found as utterances containing implicatures. Those utterances flout one of the 

maxims that Grice stated, whether it flouts maxim of quality, quantity, relevance, or manner. The 

percentages of them are as follows: there are 11 (27.5%) utterances flouting maxim of quality, 7 

(17.5%) utterances flouting maxim of quantity. In addition, there are 6 (15%) utterances flouting 

maxim of relevance and 16 (40%) utterances flouting maxim of manner. Moreover, for keep 

maintaining the implicatures, they are mostly translated literally and the translator keeps using 

some cultural and religious terminologies for keep showing the cultural and religious situation in the 

translated novel. Furthermore, the meaning equivalence is mostly achieved since the original and 

the translated novels have the same meaning of the implicatures. By considering them, it can be 

concluded that the implicatures are mostly maintained when they are translated into English because 

the meanings and conditions of those implicatures can be similarly understood like what are stated 

in the ST.  

 

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INTRODUCTION 

 

Translation plays an important role in 

communication since it is the medium for 

changing information and ideas among people 

from different languages and cultures. A good 

translation needs to paid attention in both 

semantic and pragmatic aspects since they 

determine the understanding of the hearers or 

readers. The differences between them are 

“semantics relates meaning to logic and truth 

(linguistic meaning), pragmatics relates meaning 

to context of utterance (speaker meaning)” 

(Hassan, 2011: 21). This paper is going to analyze 

one part of pragmatic aspects; it is what is called 

implicature. Baker (1992: 250) said that 

“implicature is the question of how it is that we 

come to understand more than is actually said.” 

In other words, implicature is the 

hearer’s/reader’s understanding of what the 

speaker/writer said even it is not stated directly; 

the hearer/reader knows what the 

speaker’s/writer’s intentions of saying that. 

It rarely happens for Indonesian novel 

being translated into English and “The Land of 

Five Towers” or in Indonesian version is known 

as “Negeri Lima Menara” is one of them.  The 

novel contains many dialogues to describe the 

plot of the story; however, some of them contain 

implicatures. This becomes a problem since 

implicature means something beyond what is 

stated; it is harder to be understood since the 

utterances that contain implicatures may emerge 

many interpretations. Besides, the implicatures in 

this novel actually contain the point or message 

of the novel. So, it is essentially needed for the 

readers to understand those implicatures for 

understanding the novel. 

In the process of translating this novel, it is 

needed for the translator to maintain the 

implicatures since s/he is the mediator for 

presenting the writer’s intention of stating the 

implicatures for the target readers that come from 

different languages and cultures. Newmark 

(1988: 5) argues that “it is rendering the meaning 

of a text into another language in the way that the 

author intended the text.”  From that definition, 

it can be seen that the translator needs to deliver 

the author’s intention in all parts of the text, 

including in implicature’s parts. Then, it is also an 

issue of meaning equivalence achievement; this is 

the job of translator to find the appropriate 

equivalence of meaning from the source text to 

the target text to make the implicatures 

translation become smooth and easier to be 

understood by the target readers. 

By observing some problems above, this 

study is trying to investigate the maintenance of 

implicatures in the English translation of 

dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five 

Towers”.  

This topic was chosen since impicature is 

one of important aspects for understanding the 

translated novel since it deals with the meaning 

that the writer wants to share implicitly. It is 

needed to check the maintenance of the 

implicatures and the achievement of meaning 

equivalence to see how the writer’s intention of 

stating the implicatures is delivered by the 

translator to the target readers. So, the objectives 

of this research are to describe the maintenance of 

implicatures in the English translation of 

dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five 

Towers” and to explain the achievement of the 

equivalence in meaning. 

Grice theory of cooperative principles will 

be used in conducting this research. This theory 

is used to find which utterances that contain 

implicatures. Cooperative Principles means 

“make your conversational contribution such as 

is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the 

accepted purpose or direction of the talk 

exchange in which you are engaged (Grice, 1975: 

45). This Cooperative Principles has four maxim, 

they are: maxim of quantity, quality, relevance 

(relation), and manner. The description of them 

is the following: 

1. Quantity 

(a) Make your contribution as informative as is 

required (for the current purposes of the 

exchange). 

(b) Do not make your contribution more 

informative than is required. 

2. Quality 

'Try to make your contribution one that 

is true', specifically: 



 

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(a) Do not say what you believe to be false. 

(b) Do not say that for which you lack adequate 

evidence. 

3. Relevance 

Make your contributions relevant to the 

current exchange. 

4. Manner 

Be perspicuous, specifically: 

(a) Avoid obscurity of expression. 

(b) Avoid ambiguity. 

(c) Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity). 

(d) Be orderly. (Grice, 1975: 45-46) 

Hopefully, this research can give more 

information in translation study dealing with 

implicature and can be a reference for those who 

want to conduct the similar studies. Furthermore, 

this will also help the target readers to understand 

the content of this novel, especially in the 

implicatures’ part. 

 

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION 

 

 This is a descriptive qualitative research 

that investigated the maintenance of implicatures 

found in the translation of dialogues from the 

novel “Negeri Lima Menara” written by Ahmad 

Fuadi as the source text comparing with the 

English version entitled “The Land of Five 

Towers” that is translated by Angie Kilbane as 

the target text. The objects of this study were only 

the utterances containing implicatures that were 

found in both the Indonesian text as the source 

text and English text as its translation.  As a 

researcher, I became the reader of the two novels, 

research designer, data collector, data analyst, 

and also reporter to analyze how the implicatures 

were maintained in the English translation of 

dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five 

Towers”. Then, I also analyzed the achievement 

of meaning equivalence in the implicatures in 

both of the novels. 

Documentation method was used to 

collect the data in this research. The data was in 

the form of printed text in the novel, both 

Indonesian and English versions. This novel has 

46 chapters and I analyzed the whole chapters to 

get sufficient data of implicatures from these 

novels. I analyzed the utterances containing 

implicatures from the whole chapters of these 

novels that I found through their translation 

maintenance and meaning equivalence 

achievement. I followed some steps for collecting 

the data. First, I began the research by reading 

both the Indonesian version entitled “Negeri 

Lima Menara” novel and also the English version 

entitled “The Land of Five Towers”. Next, I 

highlighted relevant utterances from those 

novels. Then, I quoted the source and target 

dialogues from the novels and put them into 

table. After that, I grouped them from the source 

and target text. I wrote the table side by side so 

that it would be easier for me to compare the 

original to the translation text.  Next, I classified 

the data by examining them and counted the 

amount of implicatures in the novels. 

In analyzing the data, observation method 

was done in six steps; they were listing, 

identifying, classifying, tabulating, interpreting, 

and drawing conclusion. The explanations of 

each are as follows: 

1. Listing 

While reading both of the novels, I 

highlighted all dialogues that were stated in the 

novels. After finishing reading the novels, I listed 

those dialogues and put them into table. The table 

contained two sides; it was for the dialogues from 

Indonesian and English versions. Those 

dialogues were grouped in each chapter. There 

were 780 dialogues that were found in these 

novels from the 46 chapters they contain. Every 

chapter contained different numbers of dialogues.  

2. Identifying 

In this step, I identified which utterances 

that contain implicatures from the dialogues of 

the novels and also analyzed the maxim that was 

flouted from each utterance containing 

implicature. At last, I found 40 utterances that 

flouted those maxims. 

3. Classifying 

After identifying, I classified the utterances 

that contain implicatures based on the maxim 

they were flouted. I grouped them into four parts, 

utterances containing implicature that flout 

maxim of quality, quantity, relevance, and 

manner. I put those implicatures in the fourth 

different tables based on the maxim they have 



 

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flouted and analyzed their literal meaning, 

implicit meaning, and context. I also put some 

utterances before and after the utterance 

containing implicature to check the context of it. 

After classifying them, I checked the meaning 

interpretation to see the achievement of meaning 

equivalence 

4. Tabulating 

Then, after classifying those utterances in 

each of the maxim it flouted, I made some tables 

for further analysis of this study. I made 2 tables, 

first was the table about the implicatures 

translation, so I gave number, maxim that it was 

flouted, data number, Indonesian and English 

version of the text, the literal meaning, implicit 

meaning, context, and also gave comment. I also 

put some utterances before and after the utterance 

containing implicature to make the context easier 

to be understood. Furthermore, the second table 

drawn was dealing with the meaning equivalence 

achievement of the novel. I drew the table for 

comparing the Indonesian meaning of the 

implicature to the English version; then, checked 

its equivalence. I also asked two raters to see the 

accuracy of the implicatures’ translation. 

5. Interpreting 

Here, I gave further explanation about 

what I have understood from the implicatures of 

the source novel and compared it to the target 

novel. I also checked the way the translator 

maintained in translating those implicatures. 

Moreover, I also tried to interpret the particular 

meaning of implicatures there and understood it 

in specific ways to see the achievement of 

meaning equivalence. 

6. Drawing conclusion 

In this step, I have found a number of 

implicatures and the most style that was used by 

the translator to maintain when translating them. 

So, I could draw the conclusion of how the 

implicatures in the dialogues from Indonesian 

into English in the novel “The Land of Five 

Towers” were maintained. Last but not least, I 

also got the conclusion how the equivalence in 

meaning can be achieved. 

 

RESULT OF THE STUDY 

 

There are 780 utterances founded in the 

novel. There are 40 utterances that have implicit 

meaning. Those utterances are flouting some 

maxims; they are maxim of quality, quantity, 

relevance, and manner. The percentage of each 

can be seen in the table below: 

  

Table 3. Percentage of Utterances Containing Implicatures 

 

For presenting an efficient and effective 

data, only some implicatures found in the novel 

will be presented here as the data representative. 

To do so, it will be divided into two sections to 

discuss about the data findings. First is about the 

classification of data from each maxim and the 

reason why it flouts the maxim and the way the 

translator maintains in translating the 

implicatures. Second, it will also be presented the 

achievement of the translation equivalence in 

meaning when the implicatures flout the maxims. 

The data representative for both analyses will be 

the same. The utterances that are analyzed will be 

put into table to make it easier and more effective 

to be read. Then, the analysis will be in the form 

of paragraph so that it will be more clearly. The 

order of maxim analysis will quality, quantity, 

relevance, and manner for all data presented. 

 

No. Maxim Amount of Implicatures  

in the Maxim 

Percentage 

 Quality 11 27.5% 

 Quantity 7 17.5% 

 Relevance 6 15% 

 Manner 16 40% 

TOTAL 40 100% 



 

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3.1 Utterances Containing Implicatures that Flout Maxim of Quality 

SL TL 

Man:    “Bapak mau menuju ke mana?” 

Ayah: “Saya mau mengantar anak. Mau     masuk 

sekolah di Pondok Madani di Jawa Timur.” 

Man: “Maksudnya, pondok tempat orang belajar 

agama itu, kan?” 

Ayah: “Iya betul, Pak.” 

Man: “Wah, bagus lah itu,” “Semoga berhasil Pak. 

Saya dengar, pondok di Jawa itu memang bagus-

bagus mutu pendidikannya. Anak teman saya, 

cuma setahun di pondok langsung berubah 

menjadi anak baik. Padahal dulunya, sangat 

mantiko. Nakal. Tidak diterima di sekolah mana 

pun karena kerjanya ngobat, minum dan suka 

berkelahi. Anak begitu saja bisa berubah baik.” 

Ayah: Pak… anak ambo kelakuannya baik dan 

NEM-nya termasuk paling tinggi di Agam. Kami 

kirim ke pondok untuk mendalami agama.” 

Man: “Wah lebih bagus lagi itu,” 

 

Man: “Where are you headed?” 

Father: “I want to escort my son. He wants to go 

to school at Madani Pesantren in East Java.” 

Man: “You mean the pesantren where people 

study the religion, right?” 

Ayah: “Yes, that’s right.” 

Man: “Wow, that’s wonderful,” 

“Hopefully he succeeds. I hear the pesantren in 

Java offers a very high-quality education. After 

just a year at the pesantren, my friend’s son 

turned into a good kid. Before, he was very 

mantiko. Bad. Not accepted in any school 

because he took drugs, drank, and liked to fight. 

Even that kind of child can be made good.” 

Father: “Sir… my son is well behaved and his 

GPA is among the highest in Agam regency. We 

are sending him to the pesantren to learn religion 

more deeply.” 

Man: “Wow, even better yet,” 

 

This dialogue takes place in a bus when 

father escorts Alif to Madani Pesantren in Java 

for continuing his study there. Then, they meet a 

man in that bus. They are engaged in a 

conversation. Then, when the man knows 

father’s destination and reason, he starts to 

encourage father for entering Alif in pesantren. 

The speaker thinks that Alif is a naughty boy and 

it is good to enter him to pesantren in Java. He 

thinks that Alif is like his friend’s son. He 

compares between them without knowing Alif’s 

behavior first. He just thinks that everyone who 

enters pesantren is bad person and pesantren is 

the only place that can make them better. He 

flouts maxim of quality since he says about which 

he has lack adequate evidence about Alif. 

The utterance that should be highlighted is: 

Lelaki: “Semoga berhasil Pak.” 

Man:”Hopefully he succeeds.” 

In this utterance, it can be seen that the 

implicature in the translation novel begins with 

the man’s praying for father’s son directly; the 

speaker directly prayed for Alif’s success in 

pesantren. It is a little bit different with what the 

writer has stated. It is about whishing father’s 

luck for entering his son in pesantren. Because of 

this, the translation of the implicatures does not 

maintain here. 

 

3.2 Utterances Containing Implicatures that Flout Maxim of Quantity 

SL TL 

Kak Sofyan: “Ayyuha thalabah. Para siswa semua. 

Penerima wesel hari ini harap segera datang ke 

bagian sekretariat. Nama-namanya adalah…,” 

“Panggilan ke Mahkamah Keamanan Pusat.” 

“Nama-nama ini diharap segera menghadap ke 

bagian keamanan segera…” 

Kak Sofyan: “Ayyuha thalabah. All students. 

Would this week’s money order recipients 

please go to the secretariat. The names are…” 

“Summons to the Central Security Court.” 

“The names are expected to soon face the 

security section.” 



 

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“Dari kelas satu, namanya adalah: Alif Fikri, Said 

Jufri, Dulmajid, Raja Lubis, Baso Salahuddin dan 

Atang Yunus.” 

Said:   “Masya Allah, padahal aku tadi hanya 

berdoa dapat wesel,” 

“From year one, the names are: Alif Fikri, 

Said Jufri, Dulmajid, Raja Lubis, Baso 

Salahudin and Atang Yunus.” 

Said:   “Masya Allah, I only prayed for a money 

order,” 

 

This dialogue happens when Alif Fikri, 

Said Jufri, Dulmajid, Raja Lubis, Baso Salahudin 

and Atang Yunus get two calls. First, they have 

to get their money order. Second, they have to go 

to security section that they are not expected. 

Said, as the speaker here, is shocked since he and 

his friends have to face two great things at the 

same time, one is good news; however, the other 

is not.  This implicature is stated to express that 

the speaker feels sorry about the condition. This 

utterance flouts maxim of quantity because the 

speaker says something less informative than it is 

needed. He just says that he hopes to get the 

money order only. Only here means there is 

something unexpected also happens but he does 

not mention it. 

The utterance that should be highlighted is: 

SL: “Masya Allah, padahal aku tadi 

hanya berdoa dapat wesel,” 

TL: “Masya Allah, I only prayed for a 

money order,” 

 In this utterance, it can be seen that the 

translator still uses the phrase Masya Allah 

instead of Good heavens! in this utterance to 

maintain the same religious situation to her target 

readers. 

 

3.3 Utterances Containing Implicatures that Flout Maxim of Relevance 

SL TL 

Kurdi: “Saya baru dapat info kalau kita akan 

punya warga baruyang istimewa di sini. Seorang 

gadis caaaantik.” “Nah, kalau cantik aku bilang, 

baru kalian tertarikmendengar,” “Keluarga 

Ustad Khalid baru pulang dari Mesir, dan 

merekaakan tinggal di rumah dosen, tidak jauh 

dari sini.” 

Alif: “Lalu, apa hebatnya!”  

Kurdi: “Nah, ini yang kalian tak tahu. Telah jadi 

legenda dikalangan kakak kelas bahwa ustad ini 

punya anak gadis cantik yang tidak jauh 

umurnya dengan kita.” 

Alif, Said, Raja, Baso, Dul: “Wah!” 

Kurdi: “Iya, jadi gosipnya kita akan punya 

“putri” di sini.” 

Kurdi: “I just got information that we are going 

to have a special new citizen here. A 

beaaauutiful young lady.” “Hah, only when I 

say ‘beautiful’ do you guys want to listen.” 

“Ustad Khalid’s family just got home from 

Egypt, and they are going to stay at faculty 

house, not far from here.” 

Alif: What’s so great about that? 

Kurdi: “Now, this is what do you don’t know. 

Legend among the upperclassmen is that ustad 

has a beautiful daughter around our age.” 

Alif, Said, Raja, Baso, Dul:  Wow! 

Kurdi: “Yeah, so rumor has is that we’re going 

to have a ‘princess’ here.” 

 

This dialogue happens when some of the 

MP’s students get engaged in a conversation. One 

of the students shares what he has just known 

about the newest issue in MP. It is that there will 

be a new beautiful member in MP. It seldom 

happens in MP for having a girl that lives there 

because it is known that MP is only for boys. So, 

this is very surprising news and because she is the 

only girl there, she is called as a princess. This 

implicature flouts maxim of relevant because it is 

known that there is no king in MP. So, choosing 

the term “princess” is irrelevant with the now 

time and MP’s condition. 

It can be seen from this utterance that the 

translator translates the word gosip into rumor 

has it instead of gossip that is already existed in 

English. The rest, it is literally translated. In fact, 

the translation of implicature gives the same 

sensation like in the ST. 



 

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3.4 Utterances Containing Implicatures that Flout Maxim of Manner 

SL TL 

Said:” Bagaimana mungkin PM bisa 

membangun pemimpin umat yang sehat jiwa 

dan raganya kalau tidak menghargai 

pertandingan bersejarah seperti ini. Kalau 

menghargai, kita harus menonton siaran 

langsung.” “Tapi sudahlah, kita kan bias baca 

beritanya nanti!” 

Alif: “Iya, tapi kan tidak bias lihat Liem Swie 

King melakukan smes lompatnya.” 

Dul:“Siapa bilang kita tidak bisa nonton?” 

Atang: “Lalu… usulmu apa?” 

Dul: “Kita dekati siapa yang berkuasa di sini.” 

Said: “How can MP develop community leaders of 

sound mind and body if they don’t appreciate a 

historical match like this? We have to match it live.” 

“But whatever, we can read about it later.” 

Alif: Yeah, but we can’t see Liem Swie King do his 

jump smash.” 

Dul: “Who said we can’t watch?” 

Atang: “So… what do you suggest?” 

Dul: “We approach who’s in charge here.” 

 

There will be an international badminton 

match that will be broadcasted on TV soon. 

Indonesia will also play on this match. There are 

a group of students in MP are talking about this 

match. They want to watch this match live; in 

contrast, MP does not allow the students for 

watching TV. Some of the students are showing 

their disapoinment about this condition. On the 

other hand, one of the students named Dul gets 

brilliant idea so that they can watch the match 

live legally. He plans to persuade person who is 

in charge in MP to make watching that 

badminton match legally in MP. It flouts maxim 

of manner because it is very unclear. He does not 

mention a name/institution that he means to be 

persuaded to do what he wants. 

The utterance that should be highlighted is: 

SL: “Kita dekati siapa yang berkuasa di sini.” 

TL: “We approach who’s in charge here.” 

 In this utterance, it can be seen that the 

implicature is literally translated since the 

translator wants to build the same mysterious 

feeling about this utterance like in ST. 

 

3.4.1 The Achievement of Meaning Equivalence for Utterances that Flout Maxim of Quality 

SL TL Rater 1 Rater 2 Equivalence or Non 

Equivalence 

Semoga berhasil 

Pak. Means 

Supporting what 

father will do. 

Hopefully he  

succeeds. 

Means 

Praying for  

one’s success. 

Less accurate Less accurate Non Equivalence 

 

It can be seen the above table shows that 

the translation of the implicatures is not 

equivalence since the speaker does not mean the 

same intention. In the ST, the writer gives a 

support to father, on the other hand, in its 

translation, the translator shows a wish for 

father’s son. So, it gives different meaning. Rater  

1 says that the translation’s accuracy is less 

accurate; in addition, rater 2 has the same 

opinion. So, it can be said that the equivalence of 

this implicatures in its translation cannot be 

achieved. 

 

 

 

 



 

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3.4.2 The Achievement of Meaning Equivalence for Utterances that Flout Maxim of Quantity 

SL TL Rater 1 Rater 2 Equivalence or Non 

Equivalence 

Masya Allah,  

padahal aku tadi  

hanya berdoa dapat 

wesel. 

Means 

The speaker does  

not hope to get  

something else  

except a money  

order. 

Masya Allah, I 

only prayed for a 

money order. 

Means 

The speaker does 

not hope to get  

something else  

except a money  

order. 

 Very accurate      Accurate   Equivalence 

 

The table above tells about the implicature 

of an unexpected situation that happens. The ST 

and the TT have the same meaning in this 

implicature. Rater 1 says that this utterance is 

very accurately translated and rater 2 says that the 

translation of this implicit meaning is accurate. 

So, the meaning equivalence is achieved and the 

accuracy level is also high. 

 

3.4.3 The Achievement of Meaning Equivalence for Utterances that Flout Maxim of Relevance 

SL TL Rater 1 Rater 2 Equivalence or Non 

Equivalence 

Iya, jadi gosipnya 

kita akan punya 

“putri” di sini. 

Means 

Very surprising  

news that there will 

be a beautiful girl  

lives here and it will 

make those boys  

feel so happy. 

Yeah, so rumor  

has is that we’re  

going to have a  

‘princess’ here.” 

Means 

Very surprising  

news that there  

will be a  

beautiful girl  

lives here and it  

will make those  

boys feel so  

happy. 

Less accurate  Less accurate            Equivalence 

 

The implicature in ST of the table 

above has the same meaning in its translation 

version. It means news of the new MP’s 

beautiful creature that will live near them and 

this news really makes them happy. The 

equivalence of meaning is achieved. 

However, the two raters give a less accurate 

point for this implicature’s translation. It is 

because the word “gosip” in Bahasa is 

translated into “rumor has it” instead of 

“gossip” that is also existed in English. 

 

 

 

 

 



 

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3.4.4 The Achievement of Meaning Equivalence for Utterances that Flout Maxim of Manner 

SL TL Rater 1 Rater 2 Equivalence or 

Non Equivalence 

Kita dekati siapa  

yang berkuasa di  

sini. 

Means 

Approaching 

someone that is in  

charge in MP for  

some missions. 

We approach  

who’s in charge  

here. 

Means 

Approaching 

someone that is  

in charge in MP  

for some  

missions. 

Less accurate Accurate Equivalence 

 

The original novel means this implicature 

as a plan to approach someone that is in charge 

in MP for some missions and the translation’s 

novel does the same. The meaning equivalence is 

achieved here. Moreover, there are two raters that 

score the accuracy of the implicature. Rater 1 says 

that the translation’s implicature is less accurate; 

however, rater 2 says that this is an accurate one. 

 

CONCLUSION 

 

Firstly, the implicatures are mostly 

translated literally from Indonesian into English 

in the dialogues of the novel “The Land of Five 

Towers.” Moreover, since the original novel uses 

some cultural and religious terminologies, such 

as: amak, ustad, masya Allah, etc, those terms are 

not translated into English; the translator keeps 

using those words for keep showing the cultural 

and religious situation in the translated novel. By 

considering them, the meanings and conditions 

of those implicatures can be similarly understood 

like what are stated in the ST. As a result, it can 

be said that the implicatures are mostly 

maintained when they are translated into 

English. 

Secondly, the meaning equivalence of the 

implicatures is mostly achieved. The equivalence 

in meaning can be reached when the original and 

the translated novels have the same meaning of 

the implicatures. It can be seen by comparing and 

understanding the situation between the 

utterances in the two novels. If the implicatures 

in the source novel and the target novels have the 

same meaning and situation, it is said that they 

have reached the meaning equivalence. Besides, 

after doing the tallying, it is found that the mean 

of accuracy from the two raters that are asked to 

rate the translation is accurate. So, these 

implicatures have good accuracy points in 

translation as well as the meaning equivalence of 

them is achieved. 

 

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