Sari, Winda. 2020. Flouting Maxim Found in Three Stooges Movies. S1 Thesis.
English Department. Faculty of Teacher and Education. Mulawarman University. Advisors: (1) Dr. Masrur Yahya, M.Hum and (2) Dr. Yuni Utami Asih, M.Pd

This research investigated Flouting Maxim Used in Three Stooges Movie. In this study, the writer is interested in analyzing the types of maxim and the reason of the flouting maxims in ‘Three Stooges’ movie. The approach of this study was qualitative research since it focused on understanding language phenomena deeply. Data analysis reveals some findings covering the formulated research questions. Throughout the movie, all of the four maxims proposed by Grice were flouted by the characters of the movie. The maxims are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relevance and maxim of manner. Those flouted maxims generated certain implicatures/hidden meaning related to the context of each dialogue which showed the reason why the characters flout a maxim. Although some of the speakers looks like uncooperative socially since they do not deliver the meaning explicitly through their utterances, but they still give contribution to the talk exchange. In other words, the speakers are cooperative since they allow or even necessitate the hearer to derive some implicature from the flouted maxims. The speaker chooses to flout the maxim since s/he is motivated by cultural aspect that is politeness consideration. The speaker sometimes states implicitly since s/he is considered that it will be nice if it is stated implicitly such as flouting Quantity maxim to give additional information, flouting Relation maxim to imply the hidden meaning that s/he does not feel comfortable with the topic they discuss. Moreover, the speaker often flouts the Quality maxim for insulting the addressee.

Keywords: Flouting Maxims, Cooperative Principle, Implicature.