D. Significance of the Study
In reference the objectives of the research, this research is expected to give both theoretical and practical contributions to some parties.
1. Theoretical Significance
It is expected that this research can give information in linguistics research and could enrich the spesific knowledge in linguistics field,
especially on maxim flouting and how the maxim flouting reflects the social issues.
2. Practical Significance
a. Students of English Literature
This research will be useful for them as an authentic source of study in pragmatics because it gives significances about the analysis of maxim
flouting and how it reflects social issues. b.
Other researchers This research will be a motivation for the other researchers to conduct
them concerning in maxim flouting.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
A. Literature Review
The researcher analyzes the Maxim Flouting that occurred in The Simpsons TV Series
. Some theoretical materials needed to strengthen the data analysis and clarify the data analysis’ process. The subjects needed to explore are explained
below.
1. Pragmatics
The study of pragmatics is related to the data analysis that is done. According to Yule, pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a
speaker or writer and interpreted by listener or reader. It has consequently, more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what
the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves. Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning. There are six topics under the Pragmatics, i.e.
Deixis, Politeness, Speech Act, Presupposition, Implicature and Cooperative Principle.
The first topic in pragmatics is deixis. Deixis is a technical term from Greek for one of the most basic things speakers do with utterances. It means “pointing”
via language. Any linguistic form used to accomplish this “pointing” is called a deictic expression. When speaker notice a strange object an
d ask, “What’s that?”, the speaker is using a deictic expression ‘that’ to indicate something in the
immediate context Yule, 1998: 9.
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