Open AccessThe Strategies of Maxim Flouting In Lincoln Movie Script
Author(s) -
I Gede Bagus Ariwangsa Rahmastra,
I Gusti Ayu Gede Sosiowati,
Ida Bagus Putra Yadnya
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
humanis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2302-920X
DOI - 10.24843/jh.2018.v22.i04.p15
Subject(s) - maxim , grice , cooperative principle , rhetorical question , irony , intertextuality , character (mathematics) , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , pragmatics , geometry
This undergraduate thesis entitled The Strategies of Maxim Flouting in Lincoln Movie Script. It was aimed to analyze maxim flouting in movie script. In more specific terms, it was aimed to identify the strategies applied and the reasons of maxim flouting by the characters in Lincoln movie script. Documentation method and note taking technique were used to collect the data. Qualitative method and descriptive technique, theory of cooperative principle by Grice (1975), and theory of rhetorical strategy by Grundy (2000) were used to analyze the data. Informal method and argumentative technique were used to descriptively present the data. All four types of maxim flouting were performed in the movie script. Among six strategies of maxim flouting, four strategies were applied in Lincoln movie script. They are: overstatement, metaphor, rhetorical question, and irony. Various reasons have lead the character to flouting the maxim, they are: demanding, offering, accusing, reprimanding, cursing, threatening, announcing, instructing, greeting, reporting, asserting, and insulting.