Statement of the Problem Objective of the Study

2. To know whether those violation Grice‘s maxims also happen in target text TT of Garfield ―Hangs Out‖ Comic.

1.4 Scope of the Study

The scope of the study in this research is limited to the analysis of the violation of Grice‘s maxims in the source text ST and in the target text TT using the Grice‘s four kinds of maxim by focusing on the utterances of Jim Davis‘s Garfield Hangs out Comic.

1.5 Significant of the Study

The researcher expect that the study of this research will give a meaningful contribution for the students of translation program, enlarge the view of the students of English Department in Dian Nuswantoro University in particular and for the observes who study focused on cooperative principle in general. The result of the study is expected to bring some significance and contribution in learning English as follows: 1. For the teacher This research is expected to be useful for the teacher as a reference about the study of cooperative principle in translation program. 2. For Dian Nuswantoro University This research is expected to be able to help students in general to develop their English capabilities especially the students who study in English translation program. 3. For the student This research is expected can give input about cooperative principle, maxims and violence maxims. This research also will guide the student how to make an analysis about cooperative principle especially which has relation with translation and help the students how to make an utterance well cooperative, effective, no ambiguous. 4. For the other researcher This research is expected to be able to give the view to the other researcher who has the same opinion about cooperative principle and the study will have some usages either theoretically or practically. 1.6 Thesis Organization This thesis is arranged in five chapters. The first chapter is introduction. It consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, scope of the study, significant of the study, and thesis organization. Review of Related Literature, exposed in the second chapter. This chapter is arranged to support and direct the researcher in analyzing the data of the problem. The theories used in this chapter are: language, translation, pragmatic, cooperative principle and comic. The third chapter is Research Method that begins with the method used in this research. This chapter contains five sub-chapters: research design, unit of analysis, source of data, technique of data collection, and technique of data analysis.