This study aims to describe the verbal interaction behavior in the dialogue of two female panakawanin wayang purwa performance by Ki Purbo Asmoro. The analysis is focused on (1) identifying thekind of assertive speech act, deciding the dominant speech act, (2) conveying the speechimplicature and describing the implementation of assertive speech act in relation to Grice’s cooperative principles. The findings include once, the assertive speech act consists of: a. informing, b.telling, c. thinking, d. convincing, e. responding, f. ensuring, g. confirming, h. estimating, i.remembering, and j. implicating. The dominant assertive speech act from all the kinds is “informing†speech act. Secondly, based on the dominant conventional implicature and thirdly, there isintentionally infraction of Grice’s cooperative principles in order to get the audiences’ sympathy aswell as to make them happy, and also to convey the explicit speech and to fulfill the politenessprinciples.Keywords: assertive speech act, implicature, and implementation.
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