The Analysis of Conversational Maxim and Flouting Maxim in “The Land of Five Towers” Novel by A.Fuadi.

In communication, people should apply cooperative principle in their conversation in order that the other people easy to understand the speaker’s meaning. Especially, when the teachers communicate to their students, cooperative principle is needed in their conversation in order that the student is easier to understand. Cooperative principle is a principle of conversation that should be obeyed by the speaker in order to get a good communication. The cooperative principle has four basic maxims of conversation. They are maxim of Quality, Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of Relation, and Maxim of Manner. But, sometimes people flouted the maxims because of many reasons. There are four of flouting maxims, they are flouting maxim of quantity, flouting maxim of quality, flouting maxims of relation and flouting maxim of manner. The objective of this research is to find out conversational maxims, flouting maxims and the speaker’s meaning of flouting maxims conversation in “The Land of Five Towers” novel. Qualitative research is used as the design of research to reach the objectives of this research. The data of this research is conversational maxims and flouting maxims. Meanwhile, the data source of this research is the conversation in “The Land of Five Towers” novel. The finding showed that there are 8 maxims of quality, 7 maxims of quantity, 8 maxims of relation and 21 maxims of manner. The finding also showed that there are 4 flouting maxims of quantity, 3 flouting maxims of relation and 6 flouting maxims of manner. Furthermore, the finding shown that each conversation has specific meaning when the speaker flouted the maxims. Based on the findings, some recommendations are proposed to English teacher in order to use this research as their reference to teach Pragmatic. Therefore, the students should use conversational maxims in their conversation in order that the student can get a good communication and there is no misunderstanding between them. Furthermore, the researcher suggests to the other researcher to develop this research with different data source and better technique.