CHAPTER I-V - Digilib UIN Malang

policy maker of this directional sign, the readers or students and especially for
new comers or new students of UIN-Malang need to recover an explicature.
Data 2: “II.II 21-30 (Second floor-South wing)”
This utterance is derived from second floor of Mabna Fatimah Al-Zahro,
exactly it is embedded on the wall beside of stair up. Actually, in every floor there
is this utterance, starting from ground floor “II.I 01-10 (Ground floor-South wing)
and II.I 10-20 (Ground floor-North wing)”up to top floor “II.III 41-50 (Third
floor-South wing)” and “II.III 51-60 (Third floor-North wing)”. It was proper that
the students of Mabna Fatimah Al-Zahro should understand the intended meaning
of those utterances. So, we need to enrich those utterance based on the
development of explicature well. This utterance will be described in four steps
based on the development of explicature.
Firstly, the kind of utterances “II.II 21-30 (Second floor-South wing)” is
Directional sign, because this utterance consists of information or instruction
about where we have to go if we are looking for one of our friends or may be our
family who live in Mabna Fatimah Al-Kubro, especially for guests or new comers
at mabna Fatimah Al-Zahro.
Secondly, explicature is developed in specification of vague term; it is
aimed to find out unclear expression or word sense ambiguity. The Roman
numeral and cardinal number “II.II. 21-30” are specified as the vague terms. It
makes the reader difficult to understand what the intended meaning of that