Abstract:Grice’s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in advertisements. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of irrational (and purposive) social interaction governed by the principle of co-operation. It describes the violence of maxims in XL advertisements as one of Indonesian cellular phone providers. The aim of the research is to investigate the maxim mostly violated in XL advertisements and the evidences of those violations issued by Excelcomindo. The findings … Show more
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