repeated too much word about parents and grandparents. The way Ingrid answered Rosalind’s question was not really effective and tent to flout the maxim
of manner.
2 R : What’s the name of the song? - Mm – +++ I don’t know perhaps you can help ++ … You can…Ingrid – mm - to remember what is the
name you want to request? P : YEAH…Bengawan Solo maybe = =
The example here involved the data from Appendix 6 numbers T.55C.70; T.55C.71 and T.56C.72. Rosalind was not sure about the title of the song which
was requested by the caller. Here, she tried to mention the title of the song but she failed. On the other hand, Paryono was unable to answer Rosalind’s question
directly and clearly. Both of Rosalind’s question and Paryono’s answer tent to flout the maxim of manner.
4.3.2.2 Infringing the Maxim
A speaker who, with no intention of generating an implicature and with no intention of deceiving, fails to observe a maxim is said ‘infringe’ the maxim. In
other words, the non-observance stems from imperfect linguistic performance rather than from any desire on the part of the speakers to generate a conversational
implicature Thomas 1995: 74. Infringing a maxim could occur because the speaker has an imperfect command of the language a young child or a foreign
learner, because the speaker’s performance is impaired in some way nervousness, drunkenness, excitement, because of some cognitive impairment,
or simply because the speaker is constitutionally incapable of speaking clearly, to the point, etc.
1 R : OK welcome to Ingrid first and that you know Tuesday edition is about education= =
I : = = right yea -
The example above was taken from Appendix 6 numbers T.3C.7 and T.4C.8. A speaker who, with no intention of generating an implicature and with
no intention of deceiving, fails to observe a maxim is said ‘infringe’ the maxim. Previously, Rosalind said that Ingrid knew what the edition was about.
Meanwhile, Ingrid as a matter of fact knew almost nothing about the edition since she was only a guest in the program. Here, the reason why the data were classified
into infringing the maxim because Ingrid actually only answered Rosalind’s question no. T.3C.7 spontaneously and with less information about what she
said.
2 R : Good evening – who’s speaking please? P : I want to speak to Ingrid.
The example was taken from the data in Appendix 6 numbers T.29C.42 and T.30C.43. Rosalind greeted Paryono and asked his name. The interaction in
this example was actually a kind of adjacency pairs. However, due to some factors, Paryono could not catch Rosalind’s question. Paryono responded
Rosalind’s words with an unappropriate answer. The problems might be technical problem i.e error in radio signal, error in telephone line, etc or it might be
because Paryono – as a non native English speaker – hardly understand what
Rosalind already said. The situation which was caused by lower language competency could be categorized as infringing a maxim. Here, Paryono was
actually supposed to mention his name as Rosalind already asked him to do that. Somehow, instead of mentioning his name, Paryono spontaneously said that he
wanted to talk to Ingrid. 3 I
: Good evening, Mr. Paryono.
P : Purwodadi
The example above was taken from the data in Appendix 6 numbers T.34C.47 and T.35C.48. Previously Rosalind and Ingrid greeted Paryono.
However, Paryono simply and spontaneously said “Purwodadi” which was not asked neither by Rosalind nor Ingrid. In this case, Paryono maybe did not really
hear the sound from his radio so that he could not understand what Rosalind and Ingrid said. The other problem, Paryono was nervous so that he could not catch
what Rosalind and Ingrid said. Here, Paryono was supposed to greet Rosalind and Ingrid as well by saying at least “good evening”. Yet, he did not do that and he
infringed the maxim.
4 E.1: It connected with the probably with the green what the green topic probably…mm ==
R : == What the warming global warming == E.1: == global warming I think? [laughing]
R : Yea? I
: Ehemm?
E.1: According according to me I think this will be related with the global warming…global warming –
The example above involved the data in Appendix 6 numbers T.96C.117; T.97C.118; T.98C.119; T.99C.120; T.100C.121 and T.101C.122. A speaker
who, with no intention of generating an implicature and with no intention of deceiving, fails to observe a maxim is said ‘infringe’ the maxim. In this case,
because of his lack of vocabulary, Edi could not convey his meaning well and he could not continue his utterance. Edi probably wanted to ask a question about
Ingrid’s concern on environment, yet he could not do that. 5 R : == Ok, anything else?
E.1: I want to ask again ++ - language is Indonesia probably is your countrical miss or where I don’t know
The example was still taken from Appendix 6 numbers T.111C.134 and T.112C.135. Here, Edi probably tried to ask Ingrid something about Indonesian
language, yet he could not arrange the utterance well. Instead of making his partner understand what he said, Edi made his partner felt confused with his
question. Somehow, if we look up on the meaning of “infringe” in Grice definition, we could somehow understand that Edi’s behavior here was caused by
his lack of language competence.
4.3.2.3 Opting Out the Maxim
