An Analysis of Flouting Maxim Performed by The Characters in Now You See Me Movie

Anisa Fahira 2021. An Analysis of Flouting Maxim Performed by The Characters in Now You See Me Movie. (Supervised by Marleiny Radjuni and Sukmawaty) The purpose of this study is to identify the types of flouting maxim performed by the characters in the Now You See Me movie. In this study, the researcher also describes the meaning of conversational implicature that is implied in each speech uttered by the characters in the Now You See Me movie. This study uses a Pragmatic approach with a qualitative descriptive method. The data presented in this research gathered from the dialogue of characters in the Now You See Me movie. The method of collecting data is to watch the movie thoroughly, then narrowing the obtained dialogue to get the data that is relevant with the formulated question in this study. After that, the data is being analyzed by using the situational context theory proposed by Halliday to describe the meaning of utterances that violate the conversational maxims the researcher finds in the movie. Based on the result of the analysis, there are 29 maxim flouting performed by the characters in Now You See Me movie. Those flouting consist of 6 flouting maxim of quality, 7 flouting maxim of quantity, 11 flouting maxim of relevance, and 5 flouting maxim of manner. Moreover, there are few meanings of the utterance that flouts the maxim of cooperative principle. Those meanings include giving information, avoiding certain topics, throwing insults, or expressing something.
Keywords : Pelanggaran maksim, Pragmatik, Implikatur, Film Now You See Me