Flouting of Conversational Maxims Analysis of Characters and Social Contexts in "All The Bright Places" Movie

Abstract

This research is carried out to investigate the types of flouting of maxims and the strategies
used by the characters that occur within the background of power and social distance contexts
in "All The Bright Places" movie. Moreover, this research is also aimed to reveal the reasons
behind the execution of the flouting of maxims. This research is employed qualitative
research. The data source of this research is presented in the form of words, phrases, and
sentences containing flouting of the maxims obtained from the characters' utterances in the
movie. The data were analyzed using Grice's cooperative principle theory, Cutting's theory of
strategies to flout the maxims, Leech's theory of illocutionary functions of politeness, and
Brown and Levinson's theory of social context. The research findings concluded that four
types of flouting maxims are found in the characters' utterances: flouting the maxim of
quantity, flouting the maxim of quality, flouting the maxim of manner, and flouting the maxim
of relevance. Only three reasons for flouting the maxims were found of four types:
competitive, collaborative, and conflictive. The most frequently used flouting maxim is
flouting the maxim of quality which is aligned with the competitive reason as the most
commonly used reason to flout the maxim.