Flouting Maxims in Hitam Putih Talk Show

Abstract

Communication between speakers and hearer should fulfil maxims in order to have an effective communication and to avoid misunderstanding. In fact, sometimes people blatantly flout the maxims but people mostly have reasons behind that and whenever a maxim is flouted there must be an implicature to save the utterance from simply appearing to be a faulty contribution to a conversation. The importantance of the research is about finding out the dominant flouting of maxims during the conversation between the participants in Hitam Putih talkshow. Besides, the purposes of why flouting the maxim was also displayed as to make this research become more comprehensive. Why a certain dominant maxim was flouted but not another maxim. In analyzing the data, the writer uses Grice's theory on maxim. The data were collected by searching, listening and making the transcripts, watching the record for many times, grouping the conversation, deciding which maxims are flouted based on the criteria, finding the reasons of the flouting. As the result, the writer found that the first most flouted maxim is the Maxim of Quality. The reasons of flouting this maxim are to make a joke and to give a clearer information. In making a joke, a speaker can pretend not to know something, pretend not being honest, and this pretendings are clearly flouting the quality maxim. That is why the quality maxim is flouted to make a joke. Another flouted maxims are also found from the data which are flouting the quantity maxim to give clearer information, to stress something, to avoid unpleasant situation. The relation maxim is also flouted as being polite, and the last the manner maxim is flouted as to make a joke. The characteristic of Indonesian speaker with long winded and not to the point, has in fact influence the flouting the maxim.

Flouting Maxim in "Spencer" Movie

“…This topic examined by numerous previous studies, as in the studies by Aisya and Fitrawati (2019), Marlisa, and Hidayat (2020), Manurung (2019), Fitri, andQodriani (2016), andLestari, Wahyudi, andYusuf (2020).…”

“…The result from study by Manurung (2019) the writer found that in talk show of Hitam Putih there are several reason to disobey the maxim; first quality maxim: to make a joke and to give clearer information. Second quantity maxim: to avoid unpleasant situation, to give clearer information, and to stress something.…”

“…All of these studies use the same theory from Paul Grice. A study by Aisya and Fitrawati (2019), Marlisa andHidayat (2020), andManurung (2019) chose their data from talk show there are Mata Najwa, Good Morning America, and Hitam Putih meanwhile Fitri and Qodriani (2016) took the data from Divergent Novel and Lestari, Wahyudi & Yusuf (2020) from observation of classroom interaction. Even though the study has the same topic with the studies above about analyzing the flouting maxim, nevertheless the data source in this study uses a movie which is in contrast with the previous study.…”

Flouting Maxims Found in Encanto Movie

“…Maxim of quantity occurs when the participants give required information, and there is no adding of any more information other than the required one Yule (1996).If the participants give too much information or not required information, it can be stated that the participants have flouted the quantity maxim. The flouting of quantity maxim is shown in an article by Manurung (2019).…”

An Analysis of the Flouting of Conversational Maxims by Grice on ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ Short Story

“…Here is the review of the previous research. First, (Manurung, 2019) studied the most dominant type of flouting of maxims in an Indonesian Talk Show, Hitam Putih, and the reasons why the speakers flout the maxim. The result shows that the most dominant maxim flouted is the maxim of quality.…”