Flouting of Manner Maxim

characters give too little information, they cut intentionally the amount of information to create exaggeration. The example will be Phil’s utterances in the interview scene. Phil sits at the dining room while looking at the camera. He describes himself as a cool dad. Phil :I’m a cool dad. That’s my thang. I surf the web, I text LOL Laugh Out Loud, OMG, Oh My God, WTF, Why The Face. You know, I know all the dances to High School Musical, so. 04QnBo10 His statement is to respond to the previous scene. The scene presents Haley who asks Phil and Claire to invite her boyfriend to their house. Phil teases Haley that he would record her and her boyfriend. Back to the interview scene, Phil explains that he teases Haley because he wants to be close to his daughter. Hence, one of the ways to get closer is by being a cool dad. Phil flouts quantity maxim because he says too much information which is unneccessary. Phil wants to shape an image that he is a cool dad. His efforts can be seen from the way he texts messages and the TV series that he currently watches, which seems young. Phil creates humor by presenting language incongruity. Instead of describing himself as a respectful father, he would rather think that he is a cool dad. In fact, he thinks he is cooler than he is. When he states that he knows all the dances in High School Musical TV series, it turns out that he dances awkwardly. Another example of flouting of quantity maxim is by cutting the information to create exaggeration. The setting is at Phil’s house. Claire, Manny, Gloria and Alex are having conversation in the dining room when suddenly Jay comes in while helping Phil whose nose is bleeding. Jay departs Phil on the couch. Phil is screaming as if he is suffering too much painful. Jay : Youll be all right. Claire : Oh, my God What happened? Jay : Little accident. Nothing big. Phil : I was in a plane crash. 53QnEx23 Claire is shocked seeing Phil with bloods on his nose. Claire asks Jay what happens. Jay says that Phil has a little accident. Phil rebuts by saying he is in a plane crash. Phil’s utterances flout quantity maxim because he deliberately says too little information by cutting off the information. He says the truth by saying a plane crash however the plane is only a toy. Moreover, everyone in the room knows that the plane is a toy because Jay also brings the toy airplane with him. In the situation, Phil creates humor because he is saying out of the box. To get more attention to the family, his expression shows as if he is just being hit by a real plane.

d. Flouting of Relation Maxim

Relation maxim is exploited by making response or observation relevant to the topic. Flouting of relation maxim means that the characters blatantly fail to follow the conversation in terms of relevance. In humor creation, the characters blatantly give irrelevant context to the previous utterances or misinterpret another character’s question to avoid issue. The first example of character who flouts relation maxim is Manny. The conversation occurs in the Mitchel’s house. Mitchel invites the whole family to his house. He wants to give an announcement that they adopt a baby. Mitchel finally introduces Lily to the family. Jay, who confronts him earlier, eventually accepts Lily’s existence among the family. Jay speaks wisely in front of the family and he asks for Manny’s support. Jay : Excuse me... Okay, I know that I said I thought this was a bad idea but what do I know? I mean, It’s not like I wrote a book on fatherhood. I’m trying whole my life to get it right, I’m still screwing up. Right, Manny? Manny : I wrote a song about it in the car. Jay : Of course you did. Anyway, I’m happy for ya And you should know that I’m not here to spit in your face, I’m here to blow at your back. It’s supposed to sound better in Spanish 28ReRp31 Manny is not cooperative by flouting relation maxim. Jay tries to be wise through his statement. He hopes that the whole family would be impressed with him. Jay asks for Manny’s agreement. Manny flouts relation maxim because he does not corrrespond Jay with an agreement, but with an irrelevant answer. Rather than giving Jay an agreement, he claims that the words are a song of him. Manny’s statement creates humor because it is incongruous. Jay tries to be sweet to his family until Manny ruines it by implying that Jay only cheates Manny’s words. Another character who flouts relation maxim is Jay. In the dialogue, Gloria and Claire are getting panic because Phil’s nose keeps bleeding. Now everyone is paying attention to Phil’s injury. Gloria asks Jay about how bad Phil’s condition is. Gloria : How bad is it? Jay : The wing is cracked, the propellers bent , but I can... Gloria : I mean Phil. 54ReFa23