AN ANALYSIS OF THE VIOLATION OF GRICE’S MAXIMS IN THE 300 MOVIE

Abstract

In general conversation usually happen cooperative principle. In conversation people tend do the violation of cooperative principle. Violation in conversation it is not only found in daily life, but also found in conversation of the movie. Cooperative principle has relation with maxims. In this thesis the writer describe about violation of Grice’s Maxims in 300 movie. This study has two purposes: (1) To know what Maxims that violated in conversation of 300 movie. (2) To know what Maxims that most often violated in conversation of 300 movie. In analyzing conversation of 300 movie, the writer applies Grice’s Maxims theory. Contexts become the main influence of conversation in 300 movie (Physical Context by Crabtree 1991:233). The data are taken from internet. The writer use description technique to analysis the data. The data is script (conversation) of 300 movie. The data separated into two groups, maxims of quantity and maxims of relevant. In findings the writer makes table and classify into two of context that include to maxims of quantity and maxims of relevant. The analysis and findings shows what conversation in 300 movie that has violation maxims of quantity and violation maxims of relevant. The context that accord with conversation in 300 movie is physical context (where the Speaker and Hearer take place).
Keywords: conversation, grice’s maxims, implicature, cooperative principle, context