THE MAXIM VIOLATIONS IN THE MAIN CHARACTER‟S CONVERSATION WITH OTHER CHARACTERS IN “DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS” MOVIE SCRIPT

This research was about the analysis of maxim violations in “Dinner for \nSchmucks” movie script. It aimed at analyzing the conversational maxims applied \nby the main character and other characters in “Dinner for Schmucks. This research \nused a descriptive qualitative method. By focusing on the statements of the \nproblem, there were two inquiries in this study. The first one was to know what \ntypes of maxim violation that occurred in “Dinner for Schmucks”, and the second \none was why the maxim violation occurred between the main character and other \ncharacters in the “Dinner for Schmucks” movie. In analyzing the conversational \nmaxims, the researcher used the theory of Cooperative Principle by Grice (1989). \nIn this theory, the Cooperative Principles includes four maxims. They were \nmaxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. \nHowever, this research only focused on three types of maxim. These were maxim \nof quality, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. The researcher concluded \nthat there were some reasons for the speakers to violate the maxims, such as they \nwere not interested in topic; they did not want to hurt the participant; they wanted \nto change the topic of the conversation; they wanted to emphasize something, and \nso on. In addition, to help the readers understand the results of data analysis \neasily. the researcher also included the pictures of each conversation. The \nresearcher found that there were 45 conversations which contain maxim violations \nand the most violated one was the maxim of relation, which counts for almost 50 \n% of the overall conversations (21 conversations).