| dc.description.abstract | This research was intended to describe the types, strategies, and functions of
the flouting maxim performed by the main characters in a movie called, The
Good Dinosaurs (2015). Since different characters have different types, strategies,
and functions of flouting maxim, the research problem focuses on those three
aspects of flouting maxim. This is because flouting maxim in social
communication might cause misunderstanding. In this case, people speak and
cooperate with others without making other people misunderstand what they
mean. Meanwhile, Paul H. Grice (1975) believes that people will have a
successful conversation if they fulfill the Cooperative Principles which are
elaborated in four sub-principles called maxims. The four maxims are maxim of
quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. Those
maxims organize how the participants should participate in a conversation in
order to make the conversation run smoothly. Yet in real life, some people often
break the maxims by infringing, violating, opting out, suspending, or flouting
them. Unlike flouting, the other kinds of the failure of observing the maxim do
not generate implicit meaning within them. By flouting maxims, the participants
of the conversation seem to be uncooperative but actually they do. The
participants themselves have certain intentions of flouting the maxims. The
phenomena of flouting maxim can be seen not only in real life but also in a
movie. The researcher interested to conduct a research which focused on the
types, strategies, and functions of flouting maxim done by the main characters in
an English movie. | en_US |
