53 the speaker flouted this maxim Levinson, 1983, p. 104. The following excerpt
explained the account of using other language, described as follows:
S02E22MNFL19 Barney: No es possible. – Nobody moves to Argentina. The Argentinean peso has dropped
two-thirds in five years, the government is opposed to free market reforms, and the railroad has been a mess since the breakup of Ferrocarriles Argentinos.
By the sign of the laughter track, uttering other languages by no mean to mislead the hearer was potential to create humorous effects as appeared in the above
excerpt. In the situation, Barney flouted maxim of manner because he used Argentinean by no mean to make the hearer misunderstood his utterance Levinson,
1983, p. 104. However, in terms of CP, the fashion of his utterance constituted flouting maxim of manner.
3 Being not brief
Flouting maxim of manner in this research was done by proceeding the fashion of constructing the utterances, as transpired from the following utterance:
S02E06MNFL4 Druthers: Now, as most of you know, my Pete Rose, Pete Rose, Pete Rose baseball has
been stolen.
The above utterance presented how the character, Druthers, uttered that his
baseball which was signed by the athlete Pete Rose three times. He fashioned his utterance by mentioning “Pete Rose” three times to emphasize how valuable the
baseball for him was. However, in terms of CP, the fashion of Druthers’ utterance was unnecessary which constituted the flouting maxim of manner Thomas, 1995.
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e. Flouting Multiple Maxims
The speaker flouted more than one maxim when the speaker wanted to imply a certain meaning or purpose.
1 Flouting maxim quality and quantity
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At Big Wave Luau 1
Ted: Robin, nothing to add? 2
Robin: No. Lily is my friend and I’m not going to make fun of her trying to follow her dreams.
3 Lily: thank you.
Robin: -- Although, you might want to bring out big Hawaiian drum because I’m pretty sure today’s my birthday.
In the excerpt above, Robin flouted both maxims of quantity and quality at
the same time. In the situation, Lily was trying to figure out and catch her dreams - - without the exception of becoming a waitress in a restaurant. Rather than
supporting, her friends made fun of her current job. At the first place, Robin raised Lily’s feeling by giving the false support. The maxim was flouted soon after the
false supports were uttered. Robin blatantly spelled out the unnecessary information in current purpose by uttering “Although, you might want to bring out big Hawaiian
drum because I’m pretty sure today’s my birthday.” Robin was considered uncooperative from Lily’s perspective because she meant her utterance to insult. In
the restaurant Big Wave Luau where Lily worked, the waitress would bring out the drum to celebrate when the customers’ birthday. The maxim of quality was flouted
as Robin lied that it was Robin’s birthday. Besides, she added information about special features offered in that restaurant which was meant to insult Lily. From the
point of Lily’s perspective, Robin’s utterance was unnecessary. Moreover, Robin
55 did not expect Lily and the others to grasp the meaning at the face value. Robin
aimed to convey a sense of humor Langacker, 1993, p. 30.
2. Analysis on a Situation which Violates Maxims
Violating a maxim occurred when someone in a conversation failed to observe one or more maxims with the intention to deceive the recipient, often using
an implicature with the intention to mislead Thomas, 1995, p. 73. The research discovered fifty 550 violations of four maxims.
a. Violating Maxim of Quality
Tupan and Natalia 2008, p. 64 said that the violation maxim of quality occurred when the speaker deliberately spelling out untruthful utterances for
different reasons: hiding the truth, saving face, feeling jealous, satisfying the hearer, cheering the hearer, building one’s belief, avoiding hurting the hearer, and
convincing the hearer as cited in “Non Observance of Grice Maxims”, 2013. The research discovered 24 excerpts which indicated to violate maxim of quality. They
added, the violation maxim of quality was executed by saying untruth or lying, overstating, understating, contradiction, irony, lacking of evidence.
1 Providing falsehood
The following excerpt discovered to be a situation in which the speaker violated maxim of quality. The research discovered that uttering falsehood with the
intention to mislead the hearer resulted a violation maxim of quality.
S02E03QLVL2 In restaurant, all have a meet-up dinner with Ted’s parents, Lily in stunning dress.
1 Lily: Are you all right? You’re kind of sweating.
2
Marshall: No, I’m fine. It’s just this roll is really spicy.
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above, Lily successfully seduced Marshall as she looked hot in her stunning dress. Despite she had good reason to ask a question, she tested him under her guise of
friendship. Hence, she would expect Marshall to provide adequate response to her face-valued question. However, Marshall owned the exchange boundaries. He
could obey the maxim by spelling out truthfully what he was feeling towards Lily’s dinner outfit which clued to embarrassment or he lied to save his face. Structurally,
both Lily and Marshall happened to have a common question-answer sequence in conversation, yet Marshall’s response to Lily’s inquiry was liable to mislead by
untruthfully putting the blame on the roll in the table. Marshall expected Lily to take the face value meaning from his utterance because he wanted to hide the truth
Thomas, 1995, p. 73. In terms of the CP, the followed-up move produced by Marshall constituted a violation of the maxim of quality.
2 Uttering ironical sentences
Violating maxim of quality discovered from the data was irony as transpired in the following excerpt:
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1 Druthers: what do you think, Ted? It just let itself out of its plastic case and rolled away? -
- Somebody stole it. 2
Ted: Well, um I better get back to these Styrofoam trees. 3
Druthers: Oh, who cares about the trees? It’s just busy work to make you feel like you’re contributing.
4
Ted: Inspiring as always, sir.
The excerpt above was discovered to be a result of violating maxim of quality. The conversation happened when Hammond Druthers, a manager of a
company where Ted hired, got mad because he lost his baseball. In the earlier time, Ted was in charged to do a project from Druthers, which was to make a set of trees
