A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF MAXIM FLOUTING PERFORMED BY SOLOMON NORTHUP IN 12 YEARS A SLAVE MOVIE

摘要

This research aims to analyze the maxim flouting in 12 Years a Slave movie. In more specific terms, this research is aimed at identifying the types of maxim flouting, documenting the strategies that are used, and seeking out the reasons for maxim flouting performed by Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave movie.udThis research was qualitative-quantitative research, which means that this research used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The quantitative approach was used to support the explanation of data analysis. The data were collected from the utterances of Solomon Northup containing maxim flouting. They were taken from 12 Years a Slave script written by John Ridley.udThe results of the research show that (1) four types of maxim flouting are performed by Northup: quantity, quality, relevance, and manner maxim flouting, (2) five strategies of maxim flouting are applied by Northup: tautology, overstatement, understatement, metaphor, and irony, and (3) four reasons that lead Solomon Northup to flout the maxims are competitive, collaborative, convivial, and conflictive reason. In terms of types, quantity maxim flouting is in the highest rank and relevance maxim flouting is in the lowest rank. In terms of strategies, overstatement is the most frequently used and metaphor is the most rarely used. Finally, dealing with reasons for maxim flouting, conflictive reason has the highest rank in its occurrence.