Flouting Maxims Happened in Steve TV Show
Keywords:
asymmetrical communication, cooperative principle, flouting maxim, politeness strategies, social imageAbstract
Communication plays an important role. To make good communication people should follow maxim’s rules, but people still break the rules and flout the maxim. This research aims at (1) identifying the types of flouting maxim, (2) finding out the strategy, and (3) finding out the effect of flouting maxim. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The data are 87 utterances containing flouting maxim in Steve TV Show. The data analysed by using Grice’s theory, and all types of maxims are flouted. The most flouting maxim used is quantity and relation with 26 data, while flouting maxim of manner is 25 and the least is quality with 10 data. The strategies found are giving too much information, giving too little information, hyperbole, irony, saying something untrue, unrelated statement, asking questions, changing topic, being stuttered, being lengthy, and being ambiguous. For the effects, based on Austin’s Perlocutionary, there are annoying, boring, convincing, causing, getting the hearer realize something, getting the hearer to do something, and insulting. Flouting maxim is common and usually done to encourage the listener to contemplate the speaker’s message, while maintaining the speaker’s social image.
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