Exploring The Maxim Flouting Types in The Teacher-Students' Spoken Interaction in EFL Class: A Discourse Analysis Using Grice's Conversational Maxims

Abstract

This study aims to find out the maxim conversation most flouted by teacher and students during teaching and learning process. The data are utterances containing maxim flouting by teacher and students in classroom interaction. The researcher used observation method of the recordings of teacher-students conversation in the classroom. The result of the research shows that teacher flouted maxim of quantity, maxim of relevance and maxim of manner. Meanwhile, the students flout four kinds of maxim. The flouting are in the form of exaggerated information for quantity maxim, untrue information for quality maxim, irrelevant information for relation maxim, and confusing information for manner maxim.