Last modified: 2021-08-04
Abstract
FLOUTING OF MAXIMS ANALYSIS IN THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA MOVIE
Halissa Dewi Purnama & Noor Eka Chandra
English Language Education Study Program,Lambung Mangkurat University
ABSTRACT
Pragmatics is a study about the relationship between language and its social context in the process of communication between a speaker and hearer. There are many aspects in pragmatics; one of them is dealing with flouting the maxims of conversation. Flouting of maxims consists of flouting maxim of quantity, flouting maxim of quality, flouting maxim of relation, and flouting maxim of manner. This research aims to examine the flouting of maxims in the movie The Devil Wears Prada.
The research method is descriptive qualitative method. The descriptive method is a method that explains or describes an object research through analysed data. The results of this study show that there are four types of flouting of maxims appear in the dialogue
of The Devil Wears Prada and there are 18 data have been analysed as flouting of maxims. There are data as generalized flouting of maxims: 9 data as flouting the maxim of quantity, 2 data as flouting the maxim of quality, 2 data as flouting the maxim of manner, and 5 data as flouting the maxim of relation. Therefore, it can be concluded that flouting maxim of quantity is a dominant flouting the maxim of conversation that appear in the dialog of The Devil Wears Prada movie.
Keywords: pragmatics, flouting the maxim of conversation, the devil wears prada movie