ELITE: Journal of English Language and Literature
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018): Vol. 3 No. 1 June 2018

An Analysis of Grice’s Maxim Violation in Spider-Man: Homecoming Movie by Jon Watts

Novi Kurnia Sari (Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Halu Oleo)
La Aso (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Dec 2022

Abstract

This thesis is intended to analyze the violation of Grice’s maxim which is found in the utterances of conversations between characters in Spider-Man: Homecoming movie by Jon Watts. The research question of this study is formulated: “What are the violations of Grice’s maxim found in Spider-Man: Homecoming movie?”. The objective of this study is to find out the violations of Grice’s maxim in the Spider-Man: Homecoming movie. Techniques in analyzing the data consist of describing the context of the data, presenting the data into conversations and images, explaining the data, and making the conclusion Based on the findings and discussion, the researcher concludes that all of the four types of Grice’s maxim violation are found in Spider-Man: Homecoming movie. Those are the violation of quantity maxim, the violation of quality maxim, the violation of relation maxim, and the violation of manner maxim. After data reduction, it can be seen that the number of the four types of Grice’s maxim violation in the movie is 20 turns. The violation of the quantity maxim is 5 turns. Violation of quality maxim is 5 turns. Violation of relation maxim is 5 turns. Violation of manner maxim is 5 turns. The dominant violation from Grice’s maxim type is the violation of maxim relation. Theviolation of Grice’s maxim in the movie is created in order to make the conversation seems natural as real life and not too formal for the speaker and the addressee.

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elite

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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