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.
