| dc.description.abstract | This research discusses about the pragmatic study especially flouted
maxims. It analyzes the flouted maxims spoken by the characters in Pretty Woman
movie. It is American romantic comedy movie in 1990. The goals of this study are
to find the types of maxim, the implied meaning and also the reasons why the
maxims are flouted. This research uses the theory of Grice, cooperative principle
and context by Yule.
The type of this research is qualitative research. Qualitative research intends
to understand a problem by explaining and describing the phenomenon. This
research applies the documentary research which analyzes the written source. The
source of the data is taken from internet at https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pretty- Woman.html. It has been found that there are 22 of 1542 utterances which are
flouted by the characters of Pretty Woman movie.
The findings of this research show that the four maxims of cooperative
principle are flouted. There are 3 utterances of flouted maxim of quantity, 9
utterances of flouted maxim of quality, 3 utterances of flouted maxim of
relevance, 4 utterance of flouted maxim of manner, 1 utterance of flouted maxim
of quantity and manner, and 2 utterances of flouted maxim of quantity and quality.
Further, the other finding of the research shows that there are some implied
meanings in the characters’ utterances. Those implied meanings are expressed
because the speaker feels uncomfortable to say what he/she feels and thinks
directly to the interlocutor. Additionally, there are some reasons why the
characters of Pretty Woman movie flout the maxims, namely conveying feeling,
making joke, convincing, hiding something, irritating, avoiding the discussion,
and emphasizing the inconveniences. Briefly, the understanding of cooperative
principle and context are important to make the conversation run well. | en_US |
