CHAPTER I-V - Digilib UIN Malang

is special for one of activities in dormitory named Musyrifah. In fact, we
know that this room is a special room for counselors of dormitory in every
floor of the building. It uses “Musyrifah” rather than “counselors” because
it is taken from Arabic and related to Islamic atmosphere inside and
around the dormitory building of UIN-Malang. What’s noticeable is that
elaborating the syntactic relation of “Musyrifah Room” requires inferences
which demand a great deal of real world knowledge about “Musyrifah”
and what the use of Arabic words for. This result in what Sperber and
Wilson call an explicature.
In conclusion, in order to understand what was meant by “Musyrifah
room”, the readers need to recover an explicature.
“Please pay in advance your levy’s class next week”.
The first reaction when we read this reminder we may feel that we have
missed some payments last week. But as we reflect it more carefully, it
seemes to us that if we missed the pay. Actually, we can determine that it
is only a gentle reminder if we know how the attitude of the writer. The
inference we need to make would yield what Sperber and Wilson call a
higher level of explicature which we reveal the prepositional attitude of
the speaker or writer to her utterance.
Thus, in order to understand what the treasurer of class meant by this
utterance, we need to recover the appropriate higher level explicature.