Abstract

The 2019 Presidential Election is one of the general elections considered as the noisiest so far. This is because of the increasing strength of polarization that occurs between groups of people that are fighting due to limited choices of candidates led by applying of presidential threshold that reaches 20 percent. In addition, the rampant dynamics that have occurred in social media have increasingly sharpened the confrontation between such groups. One of the interesting phenomena in the 2019 Presidential Election is the use of political rhetoric that is related to the ignorance of political correctness that sometimes reflects tastes that are beyond the general principle that can be socially or culturally tolerated. This rhetoric was used not only by elites of political parties but also by both candidates of the Presidential Election of 2019, namely Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto. Because of a limited space, this article just focuses on one candidate only, namely Joko Widodo. Therefore, this article tries to shed a light on such issue, that can be formulated into two purposes: (1) describing the rhetoric that is related to an ignorance of "political correctness" used by the presidential candidate number 01; (2) describing a conversational implicature in the use of Joko Widodo's rhetoric related to the ignorance of the political correctness. To address the problems, researchers used documentation methods to collect data and applied a pragmatic approach to analyze them, especially those related to conversational implicatures.

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