FLOUTING MAXIM OF QUANTITY AND RELEVANCE IN THE NOVEL OF MICE AND MEN BY J. E. STEINBECK

Abstract

Human should have good interaction to each other. The use of language holds the important role in doing communication. In using language, there is explicit and implicit meaning. Pragmatics studies the implicit meaning of language;it is Grice’s Cooperative Principle. This study focuses on the flouting maxim of quantity and relevance in the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Ernest Steinbeck. The writer uses descriptive qualitative research. In the data analysis, the writer categorizes, analyzes, describes, and interprets the data inductively. The result of the study showed that the data of flouting maxim of quantity were numbered than the maxim of relevance. There were 50 data founded; 40 maxim of Quantity and 10 maxim of relevance. The characters of the novel did the flouting maxim of quantity by using wordy statement than was required in dominantly, while in flouting maxim of relevance, they used the opposite topic of the conversation. The intentions of the speakers were related with the background of writing the novel. It influenced toward the way to get communication between the characters in this novel. So it was concluded that the way of characters’ communication in the novel supported to the moral value of the novel.