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know that he cannot grant his wish since the fan is broken. The example shows that B flouts maxim of relation since he cannot turn on the fan because it is broken. The
example shows that people have their own reasons to break the Cooperative Principle. Therefore, maxim flouting is interesting since it can help people analyzing the
meaning behind conversation. Conversation can be found in real life since many people communicate using
a verbal language. However, conversation can also be seen in movies, since dialogues are significant parts of a movie. In watching a movie, stories or facts are delivered to
the audiences through moving pictures taken from real life or animated pictures. In a movie that tells a story, the characters interact with each other, which is similar to
people in real life. Therefore, a movie can be considered as a reflection of real life. A movie entitled Philomena is chosen to be the object of this research. It is a
movie about Martin Sixsmith, a recently-dismissed journalist who helps an old woman named Philomena Lee to look for his long-lost son. The movie is chosen
because it reflects real-life communication and therefore it may contain maxim flouting. It was also nominated for Oscars Pomerantz, 2014:par. 2, which means
that the movie had good reputation. Those are why the movie is chosen as the object of this research.
B. Research Focus
In accordance with the background of the study, various pragmatic phenomena can be found in Philomena movie. Some pragmatic problems can be
generated from the movie.
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The movie,
Philomena, can be analyzed through conversation analysis point of view. The conversations that occur in the movie contain various elements such as
turn taking, interruption and adjacency pairs. They appear in the movie since the movie has various types of conversations.
The movie can also be analyzed through speech act point of view since some actions in the movie were done through words. The types and the functions of speech
act can be used to analyze the dialogues of the movie. The third possible problem can be seen through the Cooperative Principle
point of view. There are several ways to break the Cooperative Principle, i.e. maxim flouting, maxim violating, maxim infringement, and maxim opt out. However, in the
movie, the main character often commits maxim flouting because he wants other characters to look for implicatures in his utterances. In maxim flouting, the types of
maxim flouting can be analyzed; they are maxim of quantity flouting, maxim of quality flouting, maxim of relation flouting and maxim of manner flouting. Besides
the types of maxim flouting, the strategies of maxim flouting can also be analyzed, for example, one can commit a maxim flouting by giving too little information.
To limit the scope of the research, the types of maxim flouting and the strategies of maxim flouting were selected as the objectives of this research. The
analysis of the problem is done through pragmatics point of view, or specifically Cooperative Principle.
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In accordance with the limitation, the formulation of the problem are as follows:
1. What are the types of maxim flouting performed by the main character in
Philomena? 2.
What are the strategies of maxim flouting used by the main character in Philomena?
C. Objectives of the Research
In relation to the formulation of the problem, the objectives of the research are as follows:
1. to identify the types of maxim flouting performed by the main character in
Philomena, and 2.
to describe the strategies of maxim flouting used by the main character in Philomena.
D. Significances of the Research
