The Analysis of Flouted Maxim on Pretty Woman Movie Script

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.