41 characters. The distribution of those types of maxims are described in the following
chart:
In the chart above, each of clusters described the maxims of CP which were violated by the way of non-observance maxims. In the clusters, violating maxim of
quality was the most frequent above all and infringing maxim of quality was the least, occurred in humorous conversations. As it appeared in the chart, all maxims
were violated. However, only four of five types of non-observance maxims employed in humorous conversations Viz. flouting, violation, infringing, and
suspending. In this section, the researcher discussed and analyzed the violated maxims
discovered from the episodes of How I Met Your Mother season 2 in accordance with the non-observance maxims of CP and the theory of basic structure within
conversations. Each of excerpts was exclusively presented based on its category of non-observance: flouting maxim, violating maxim, infringing maxim and
suspending maxim.
6 27
11 10
15
4 1
2 2
4
5 10
15 20
25 30
Quality Quantity
Relevance Manner
Multiple
4.1 Chart of distribution of violation maxims based on the non- observance maxims types
Flouting Violating
Infringing Suspending
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1. The Analysis on a Situation which Flouts Maxims
Flouting a maxim occurred when a participant in a conversation chose to ignore one or more of the maxims by using a conversational implicature Thomas
1995, p. 65. In this research, the all four maxims of CP were discovered to be flouted by the characters.
a. Flouting Maxim of Quality
This category chanced when the speaker blatantly intended to say something untrue or lied and denied something. The speaker misrepresented his information
in order to make the hearer understand the intended meaning of an utterance Levinson, 1983, p. 110. Its implicature could be drawn when the contribution was
untrue or lack of adequate evidences. Flouting maxim of quality discovered from the excerpts were done by exaggerating, using metaphor and delivering sarcastic
tone Essay, 2013. 1
Using Exaggeration The following excerpts illustrated the example of the situation in which
maxim of quantity was flouted:
S02E01QLFL1 The year 2030, the narrator, Ted was telling his kids a very long story about how he met
their mother. 1
Ted: Okay, where were we? It was June of 2006 and life had just taken an unexpected turn.
2
Daughter: Dad, can’t you just skip ahead to the part where you meet Mom? I feel like you’ve been talking for like a year.
S02E11QLFL6 At Lily’s apartment, Barney was smoking facing over the opened window while he was sick
and it was winter. 1
Robin: Barney. What the hell are you doing? Get in here, it’s freezing outside. Are you insane?
2
Barney: Hey, blame Lily and her oppressive ‘no cigars in the apartment rule.’ God, it’s like Marshall’s marrying the Taliban.
