THE ANALYSIS OF VIOLATED MAXIM IN THE FURRY VENGEANCE MOVIE BASED ON GRICE’S THEORY

Abstract

This research is aimed at finding out what kinds of violated maxims which are employed by the characters in “ Furry Vengeance” movie. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method. The researcher takes the data from the dialogues in the movie and explains the data descriptively. In analyzing data the researcher follows some steps. They are Classifying the utterances related to violated maxim on the type of quantity, quality, relation, and manner; describing the data in form of dialogues which contain violated maxim based on Grice’s theory; giving the code; describing the context when the dialogue occurs; analyzing the maxim and its implicature, and describing the reason why the utterance is classified containing violated maxim. The result of this research is dominated by the maxim of quantity and relation. The first is violated maxim of quantity. It violated 7 times or 30 %. The second is violated maxim of quality. It violated 5 times or 22 %. The third is violated maxim of relation. It violated 7 times or 30 %. The last is violated maxim of manner. It violated 4 times or 17 %.

Key words: Analysis, Violated maxim, Furry Vengeance, Grice’s Theory.