A Pragmatic Analysis of Humor in Movie Script the Post Grad

Abstract

This research is focused on analyzing the flouted maxim of utterances used by the characters in the movie Post Grad. The purpose of this study is to find the types of flouting maxim, and to explain the flouting maxim in the movie Post Grad. There were 23 utterances of flouted maxim as data for this research. In conversation, flouting maxims are the rules of cooperative principle categorized into four categories based on Grice's theory. The analysis showed that there were ; 1) Maxim of quality 6 utterances, 2) Maxim of quantity 5 utterances, 3) Maxim of relevance 6 utterances and 4) Maxim of manner 6 utterances.