Abstract:
This research analyzed the flouting maxim of the cooperative principle in a
film Oz the Great and Powerful. It covers the various kinds of the flouting
maxims and the application of the flouting maxims of the cooperative principle in
language teaching.
In this study the researcher chooses the data from the dialogues in the film.
The steps of collecting data are watching the film entitled Oz the Great and
Powerful, downloading the script from the internet, then taking all utterances
which contain flout of the maxim as the data, and giving a code for each data. The
procedure of analyzing data are describing the data in form of dialogue, describing
the context, and analyzing the maxim. Descriptive qualitative method is
considered as the most appropriate method to be applied that is chosen by the
researcher.
The researcher presents the result of the research. There are 13 flouting
maxim in the dialogue of the film. The maxim of Quantity flouted 10 times or
76.9%, the maxim of Quality only flouted 1 time or 7.7%, the maxim of Relation
only flouted 1 time 7.7% and the maxim of Manner only flouted 1 time 7.7% too.
The result shows that the application of the flouting maxims of cooperative
principle in language teaching is important in teaching Expressing Sympathy. It is
also to develop the student’s communicative competence which is viewed as the
ultimate aim of oral English teaching.
