1.4. Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study are described as the following 1.
To describe the types of maxims used by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his political speeches.
2. To show the dominant maxim used by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his
political speeches.
1.5. Scope of the Study
This study analyzed about maxims in political speech of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a president of Indonesia. Two speeches will be taken
randomly. This study was focused on Leech’s theory 1983 :206 which introduces six maxims. They are tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation
maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim and sympathy maxim.
1.6. Significance of the Study
The significance of the study can divided into two as the following
1. Theoretical
This study is useful for the study pragmatics. Pracmatics is the study of how language is used to communicate especially about maxims in
political speech
2. Practical
This study is expected to provide some information about maxims that is useful for English Department students as a contribution to their
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understanding of maxims in social reality and its connection to language and interaction. By knowing the maxims, it will be useful for people who want to
realize and pay their attention to apply maxim in their communication such as being more careful in determining the choice of words, phrase, clause and
sentence in expression of ideas or meaning in a given context because being polite is an important thing in our life to interact to others.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Speech as a way of communication focus on the speaker and it learn in pragmatics. Pragmatics Yule 1996:3 is a branch of linguistics which
is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker or writer and interpreted by a listener or reader. The advantage of studying
language via pragmatics is that one can talk about people’s intended meaning, their assumptions, their purposes or goals and the kinds of the action
for example, request that they are performing when they speak. The big disadvantage is that all these very human concepts are extremely difficult to
analyze in a consistent and objective way. Maxims always found in conversation or in speech. In conversation
there is interaction between the speaker and hearer as directly and in speech actually the communication is happen indirectly. In speech always used
politeness and communicative language. For example , in political speech. In this thesis, the writer analyzed the political speech which use maxims. In
political speech sometimes found the special utterance depend of the speakers. And the speakers are always showing the difficult word or a utterance to show
the quality of their language or their education. That’s why it is interesting to analyze the maxims of speech of someone. In analyzing it, the writer needs
some theories to support and to make easy to analyze it. Here are some theories that needed :
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2.1. Pragmatics
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