RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2022)

Flouting of Grice’s Maxims in The Mitchells vs. The Machines Film

Ni Kadek Debi Puspita Manggalita (Faculty of Foreign Languages, Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia)
Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi (Faculty of Foreign Languages, Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia)
Putu Nur Ayomi (Faculty of Foreign Languages, Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Oct 2022

Abstract

Obeying the cooperative principle is an important rule that must be done to attain a good and relevant conversation, which can be divided into four categories of maxims, such as maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of manner, and maxim of relation. However, in everyday life, there are still many people who flout these maxims which causes their conversation to be ineffective. This study aims to determine the types of flouting maxim found in The Mitchells vs. The Machines film is based on the Cooperative Principle theory of Grice (1975). This study also aims to analyze the reasons of flouting maxim committed by characters using Flouting Maxim Strategies theory from Cutting (2002) and Illocutionary Functions of Politeness theory from Leech (1983). The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected from the utterances of the characters that flout the maxims in the film through the observation method. The results showed that there were 45 cases of flouting maxim found in the film. The maxim that is flouted the most is the maxim of relation. There were several reasons the characters flouted the maxims. Related to strategies and functions, the most frequently used reasons are the strategy of being irrelevant and competitive function. This is because the characters tend to say things outside the topic being discussed with the intention of asking people to do something.

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Journal Info

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jret

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa, 2406-9019 (Print ISSN), 2443-0668 (Electronic ISSN) is the Journal of Linguistics who published research articles and of theoretical articles in linguistic science which published by Linguistic Department, Postgraduated Program, Universitas Warmadewa. The journal is ...