FLOUTING MAXIMS IN SOUL FILM

Abstract

Grice (in Yule, 1996:37) states that people can have effective conversations if they obey to the cooperative principle which is divided into four types of maxims, such as maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. However, during the conversation, there were also responses given by the listener that did not match what was said by the speaker which caused the conversation to not go properly. Many people sometimes disobey the maxim deliberately, this case is known as flouting maxim. This study discusses maxim that flouted by the characters in the Soul film. This study aims to find out the types of flouting maxim based on the theory of Cooperative Principle by Grice (1975). The method used in this research is qualitative method. The data was collected from the utterances of the characters in the film. Then the data was classified based on the types of flouting maxim and the reasons of flouting maxim. The finding shows that all types of maxim are flouted by the characters in the film. The maxim which flouted the most in conversation is the maxim of relation because the speakers give a response that is not relevant to the topic being discussed. Flouting maxims occurs because the speakers do not obey the maxim when doing the conversation to convey the hidden meaning in their utterances.