principle within the maxims of conversation. The writer also focuses at the disobedience of the maxims of conversation to gain and explore about the non-
observance of participants characters in the drama’s dialogue. Based on those reasons, the writer is interested in analyzing about The
Non-Observance Maxim of Conversation in Arthur Miller’s the Last Yankee Based on Grice’s Theory of Cooperative. It is hopefully can enrich our
perception about the linguistics’ analysis and the text analysis which focuses on drama as an object.
2. Focus of the Study
To limit the research, the writer will focus on the violations of the maxims which Grice already purposed in Cooperative of Principle and how the
disobedience of maxim in drama happens.
3. Research Questions
Based on the focus of study, the writer will cover the questions below: 1.
What kinds of maxim in Cooperative Principle are not obeyed by the participants while the implicature appears in their dialogue in which shows the
non-observance of the participants? 2.
How does the process of the maxim’s violations happen?
4. Significance of Study
The writer hopes by doing the analysis, it will create a smarter reader and contribute the wide perspective in analyzing the language use and the literature. It
is hoped to become an additional reference of how to analyze the Literature text or non literature text and acknowledging about the analysis text.
5. Research Methodology 1. Objectives of the study
Based on the research questions above, the writer has several objectives below:
1. To know the kinds of maxim was not obeyed by the speaker and listener while
the implicature appears in their dialogue in which can shows the non-observance of the participants.
2. To know how the process and the causes of the maxim’s violations happen.
2. Method of the study
The method conducted in the research is qualitative method. Through this method, the writer describes the violation of maxim of conversation through
Arthur Miller’s drama dialogue; The Last Yankee. Holloway said that qualitative research is the context bound,
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in which means that the writer must be able to involve and carefully focuses into the background of the data analyses.
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According this statement, the writer will describe and explore the data analyses as it correlates with the object of analysis.
3. Technique of data analysis
