AN ANALYSIS OF FLOUTING MAXIMS INTHESOCIAL NETWORKMOVIE BY AARON SORKIN

Communication needs the effectiveness and efficiency of delivering contribution of information that is easier to speaker and hearer. In conversation, the addresser (the speaker) does not realize that sometimes they do not abide by the rules when talking to addressee (the hearer). The important problem is some of them do not have knowledge about the conversational analysis is called maxim. In contrary, they often flout the maxims because they have certain reasons. Base on the phenomenon the writer decide to conduct this research in order to give more understanding about maxim, flouting maxim and implied meaning. The writer use Grice’s theory to analyze flouting maxim in The Social Network movie. Flouting is analyzed in this research because the maxim overtly broken. It is also causes the utterances have some implied meanings and sometime it is difficulty to understand because the information is more or less informative. This research is intended to find out (1) the types of flouting maxim in The Social Network movie, and (2) the implied meanings of flouting maxim. This research limits the discussion by analyzing only flouting maxims of Grice’s theory maxim in The Social Network movie by Aaron Sorkin. This research uses descriptive method. The data are utterances of flouting maxims found in The Social Network movie. The technique of collecting data based on the purpose of the research. After the data identified and analyzed, the result shows that the number of floting maxims in The Social Network movie are 57 maxims. Those are flouting quality (25), flouting quantity (14), flouting relation (13) and flouting manner (5). Mostly, the implied meaning of flouting maxim of quality is to cover up the truth (lie). The implied meaning of flouting maxim of quantity is to emphasize the message. Another words, the implied meaning of flouting maxim of relation is to disclose certain purpose. And the implied meaning of flouting of manner is evoke curiosity. For the students, the lecturers, other researchers. The writer suggest that they observe the whole maxims, because in a communication we need to give enough information, qualified, and relevant information in a clear way in order to establish a good communication.