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
Flouts which exploit the maxim of Quality occur when the speaker says something which is blatantly untrue or for which he or shehe lacks adequate
evidence.
1 I : Sing…sing it? - and WHAT…what is the NAME?
R : What’s the name of the song? - Mm – +++ I don’t know perhaps you can help ++ - You can…Ingrid – mm - to remember what is the
name you want to request?
The example above was taken from the data in Appendix 6 numbers T.54C.59; T.55C.70 and T.55C.71. Previously, Paryono - one of the listeners –
asked Ingrid to sing a keroncong song since Ingrid said that she often listened to Indonesian keroncong song. However, both Ingrid and Rosalind seemed like
hardly remember the song. Rosalind was not sure about the title of the song which was requested by the caller. Here, she tried to mention the title of the song but she
failed. From the data mentioned above, the writer assumed that Rosalind broke maxim of quality because she said something which she did not know well.
2 E.2: OK, I want to know what - is there any different with mm ++ what nurses - nursing academy in Indonesia and in Dutch?
R : She doing nursing- you’re doing nursing? I
: WELL, I’ll tell you that until years ago the training of nurses in Holland and Germany where is possibly to be the best in the world,
that’s what - what I know, - I don’t know about now - what I know
about college ad academy in Holland is that the standards are - are high - but I think that the students are sometimes a bit spoiled, mm ++ you
know? ++ here - they get - they have so many chances to do what they want to do to study what they want to - but sometimes they tend to be a bit
sloppy [laughing]
The example was taken from the data in Appendix 6 numbers T.280C.320; T.281C.321; T.282C.322 and T.282C.323. Eni asked Ingrid about
the differences between nursing in Indonesia and in Holland. Later, Ingrid answered Eni’s question about the quality of nursing education in Holland.
However, Ingrid was not really sure about the quality of nursing education in Holland recently, since she did not really follow the development of nursing
education in Holland. From the data above, the writer assumed that Ingrid broke the maxim of quality since she did not really believe in what she said.
4.3.2.1.3 Flouting the Maxim of Relation
