VIOLATION OF CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS IN THE AVENGERS MOVIE

Abstract

The study deals with the types of maxims violation in The Avengers movie’s
script. The objectives of the study were to discover the types of maxims violation,
the most dominant maxim violation, and to explain the implication of the most
dominant maxim violation in The Avengers movie. The source of the data was the
conversations in The Avengers movie. The data was the script of The Avengers
movie. There were 55 maxim violations in this research. The descriptive
qualitative design was used to analyze the data. Descriptive qualitative research is
a research method which describes the condition, events or situations. This study
was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method because the intention of
this study was to describe how the maxims are violated. The results showed that
all types of maxim were violated; 39 utterances (70.90%) maxim violation of
relation, 8 utterances (14.54%) maxim violation of quality, 5 utterances (9.09 %)
maxim violation of quantity, 3 utterances (5.45%) maxim violation of manner.
The most dominant type of maxim violation was the maxim violation of relation.
The implication of maxim violation of relation as the dominant type of maxims in
the script of The Avengers movie was a strategy from the speakers to hide
something, to hide the truth, and to create humor by giving irrelevant answer or
changing the topic.