Flouting Maxim Used By The Main Characters In The Boss Baby Movie

Abstract

The objective of this research were to discover the types of flouting maxim, the dominant flouting maxim, and to explain the implicature of the flouting maxim in The Boss Baby movie. This research was done only on Tim and the Baby utterances because they are the main characters. There were 59 of flouted maxim as the data for this research. The descriptive qualitative design was used to analyze the data. The results of the analysis shows that all types of maxim were flouted; 31 utterances flouted maxim of relevance (52.5%), 12 utterances flouted maxim of quality (20.3%), 9 utterances flouted maxim of quantity (15.3%), and 7 utterances flouted maxim of manner (11.9%). The maxim of relevance was dominant type of maxim that was flouted by the main characters. The implication of the maxim was the people who covered his truthfullness, trick, irrelevance, ambiguity, and so on.