CHAPTER I-V - Digilib UIN Malang

Secondly, the directional sign “Guest House” can be added with some
disambiguation words. This process is aimed at avoiding ambiguity in reaching
out the intended meaning of this directional sign. The utterance “Guest House”
can be added by “this……is special for guests of dewan kiyai and guests of rector,
not for public”. These additional words are not in contrast or against the original
meaning of the utterance, because these additional words are elaborated from the
original utterance and based on the reader’s background knowledge, as we
understand that explicature is enrichment from the original utterance. 35 However,
these additional words are added to explicate the salient meaning of the utterance,
in order to help the readers easily understand the utterances.
Finally, after considering disembogues words, the conceptual constituent
above is embedded into the original utterance. Thus, the explicature of the
utterance is ”these Guest Houses is special for guests of dewan kiyai and guests of
rector, not to open for public”. From this conceptual constituent, we know that
this Guest house is not open for public. Moreover, for student’s family who has
been provided a place in Al-Farabi dormitory building. So, it is clear for us that
“Guest houses” is the house which is used specially for VIP’s guests of the State
Islamic University of Malang.
In addition, this directional sign is automatically relevant if the readers
have background knowledge of the condition or policy inside dormitory of UIN-
35 Loc.Cit, 2000: 102