Violation of Cooperative Principle in Bel Ami Movie

Abstract

The listener can be successfully understood if they cooperate with each other by considering cooperative principles. Referring to Grice, there are four maxims in cooperative principles to be considered; quantity maxim, quality maxim, relevance maxim, and manner. The implicit meaning that communicated but unsaid on the conversation called implicature. So the focus of the study is to describe and explain the conversational implicature or violation of cooperative principle in Bel Ami movie. In this study the writer uses qualitative descriptive analysis. The analysis used by the writer is inductive analysis by using research data as basis to understand the violation of conversational implicature. The conclusion of this study, character violated cooperative principle in this movie because of the context that makes them to do so, and they have their reason to violate the maxims. The writer concludes that in having conversation, people should understand the meaning intended by the speaker, because the real meaning is not only in the structure sentence or surface meaning but although it is unsaid but it communicated.