an additional meaning Grice calls ‘conversational implicature’ and he terms the process by which it is generated ‘flouting a maxim’.
4.3.2.1.1 Flouting the Maxim of Quantity
A flout of the maxim of Quantity occurs when a speaker blatantly gives more or
less information than the situation requires. 1 R : OK, beside, I’m interesting to know about your activity in Holland -
also you are a broadcaster but not broadcasting in Dutch but in bahasa Indonesia and mm – perhaps you can show =
I : = = YES = = The example above was taken from data in appendix 6 number T.13C.18
and T.14C.19. The data here were classified into flouting of maxim of quantity since the way Rosalind asked about Ingrid’s activity as an announcer in Holland
was a bit complicated. Rosalind asked Ingrid to share a little bit of her story especially the part when Ingrid spoke Indonesian language in her radio program in
Holland. In this case, Rosalind’s question sounded a bit complicated and confusing. Actually, it was enough for her to briefly ask Ingrid and did not
employ too much word in her question.
2 R : OK, beside, I’m interesting to know about your activity in Holland - also you are a broadcaster but not broadcasting in Dutch but in
bahasa Indonesia and mm – perhaps you can show =
I : = = YES = =
R : = = it to us little bit – I
: Yeah the first I was teacher of English and then very later I became a journalist and I always kept up my knowledge of Indonesia – and when I
had the chance to get an hour for broadcast in especially for Indo Dutch people I took the chance -and I have a format in which I tell about
Indonesia now - or I tell about long houses in Borneo – I tell about things that happened in what I called Indo Dutch world in Holland –
you know we have our own culture in the middle of the Dutch culture - we have our traditions with a partly from Indonesia and partly from
Holland because you know there’s always this mix in us and the music I play in my program is can be from
gamelan, keroncong to modern pop
The example above involved the data in appendix 6 number T.13C.18; T.14C.19; T.15C.20; T.16C.21 and T.16C.22. Previously, Rosalind asked about
Ingrid’s activity as a radio announcer in Holland. Ingrid then answered Rosalind’s question by orderly telling of how she became a radio announcer. Actually, those
answers were enough to inform Rosalind and listeners. However, Ingrid then added her answer by telling about the topic which was presented in her radio
program. Ingrid’s second answer about the topic in her radio program could be categorized into flouting of maxim of quantity since Ingrid gave more information
than the situation required.
4.3.2.1.2 Flouting the Maxim of Quality
