Flouting Maxims In Central Intelligence Movie Script
Rizki Maulinawati, Muhammad Nur Farkhan · Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Institutional Repository (Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta) · 2018
This research aims to analyze the flouting maxims that contain in the Central Intelligence movie. This research uses the qualitative method and the unit of analysis is the Central Intelligence movie script. In more specific terms, the research is aimed at identifying and documenting the rhetorical strategies that are used by the characters and analyzing the implicature. The maxims are flouted when the speaker using the utterances in the form of rhetorical strategies, such as tautology, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, and rhetorical question. This research used the cooperative principle and conversational implicature theory which was initiated by Paul Grice and used the rhetorical strategies by Grundy. As the result, this research shows that there are seventeen flouting maxims that performed by the characters. Besides, it was found that only five of rhetorical strategies were applied by characters such as six understatements (35,30%), five overstatements (29,42%), two metaphors (11,76%), two rhetorical questions (11,76%), and two ironies (11,76%).