Flouting Of Grice’s Maxims In Short Comedy Film Entitled The Worst That Could Happen

Ade Dwi Cahyanti

Authors

Ade Dwi Cahyanti English Language Education, Postgraduate Program, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Keywords:

flouting maxim, flouting of quantity, flouting of quality, flouting of manner, flouting of relevance/relation

Abstract

Someone sometimes violates these maxims as they will not always share their thoughts literally. The aim of this research is to investigate the flouting of maxims used by the characters in a short comedy film entitled The Worst That Could Happen. This research used a qualitative method based on Paul Grice’s theory (1989). Furthermore, the sources of data were Brannon and Amy as the characters in the film. As a result, the findings revealed all types of flouting of the maxims that occurred in the utterances of the characters in the film. Second, the flouting of quantity was the first flouting of the maxim that was frequently attached to construct their utterances in the communication between Brennan and Amy. Then, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relevance, and the maxim of manner were the last flouting of maxims that was commonly used by the characters in the short film.

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