AN ANALYSIS OF FLOUTING MAXIMS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN HOMEFRONT MOVIE

The phenomena happens this time in the society is they never think about their successfull conversation. So, to make a successfull conversation, they have to obey the rules of being a good conversation itself. Those are true, relevant, informative and clear. It is also called a conversational maxim. But, when the speaker does not obey those rules in order to create an extra meaning, it means that she/he is flouting the maxims.
This study is aimed at flouting maxims used by the main character in Homefront movie. The writer uses Phil Broker utterances to analyze this study because he is main character in Homefront movie. The purpose of this study is to find out the types of flouting conversational maxim, and context of situation by Hymes used by Phil Broker as the main character in Homefront movie. This study is designed in descriptive qualitative. The data is collected by using transcription. The data is taken from Phil Broker’s utterances. In analyzing the data, the writer used Cooperative Principle Theory that proposed by Grice ( 1975 ). From the analysis above the writer finds that Phil Broker flouts his utterance in four types of maxims. He mostly flouted his utterances in maxim of quantity because he want to convey his opinion which too strong or more informative.