6 acquiring a complete knowledge of Grices maxims and the maxims violations,
English language learners and readers will be able to provide a productive and meaningful conversation. This research will give further data about maxims
violations found in The Prince and the Pauper movie and the underlined purposes the characters violate the maxims in conversation.
1.2 Research Problems
The research questions are formulated as follows. 1. What Grices maxims are violated in The Prince and the Pauper movie?
2. What possible purposes underline the maxims violation?
1.3 Problem Limitation
This section discusses problem limitation of this research. Problem limitation is used as a guide for the researcher to pay his heed only to the points
elaborated in the research, namely Grices Cooperative Principles with the four maxims being violated, The Prince and the Pauper movie, five of the characters
violating the maxims, the purposes the characters violate the maxims, and the documents used in this research. This research discusses the violations of Grices
maxims on addressees responses to their addressers utterances in the movie entitled The Prince and the Pauper.
The researcher limits his research to five characters, out of thirty four, namely Prince Edward Tudor, Tom Canty, King Henry VIII, the Earl of Hertford,
and Ruffler. The reason is when playing role as addressees, they tend to violate Grices maxims. The script of The Prince and the Pauper movie and books entitle
7 Logic and Conversation by Grice, Principles of Pragmatics by Leech, Politeness:
Some Universal in Language Usage by Brown and Levinson, and Interactional Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behavior by Goffman are used as the main
resources to analyze. Thus, the methodology used in this research is limited only to the document analysis.
This research is restricted to an investigation to reveal which maxims in Grices Cooperative Principle are violated by the addressees in The Prince and the
Pauper movie as stated in the first research problem. The maxims are Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of Quality, Maxim of Relevance, and Maxim of Manner. Thus,
while watching the movie, the researcher pays attention to these four maxims. This research is also confined to revealing the motives for the violations
on the speeches made by the addressees in The Prince and the Pauper movie as stated in the second research problem. Mirrored from the viewpoint of context, the
researcher examines the movie script and the interrelationships between the characters in order to uncover the purposes of the violation. Only through a
thorough analysis of the responses; can all the motivations for violations be understood.
1.4 Research Objectives
