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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Alhamdulillah, the writer express her best gratitude to Allah SWT, for

giving the writer blessing, endless love and mercy, especially in the process of

accomplishing this thesis. In accomplishing this thesis, the writer was helped by

so many beloved people and the writer would like to express her gratitude to:

 Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si. as the Rector of State University

of Medan

 Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum. as the Dean of Faculty of Languages and

Arts

 Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd. as the Head of English and Literature

Department and Dra. Meisuri, M.A. as the Head of Applied Linguistics Program

 Prof. Amrin Saragih, M.A.,Ph.D as her thesis adviser, for the advice,

guidance, comment, and precious time in supervising the draft of writing

during the completion of this thesis, Dra. Sri Juriaty Ownie, M.A as her

academic adviser, and all her beloved lecturers in English and Literature

Department.

 Mam Eis, Mam Enda and Mam Indri for their kind help in providing

academic administrations to the writer.

 Her beloved family, her father, Ahmad Yusuf , her mother, Rahmayanti,

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you for the understanding and the big support in prayer, love, motivation

and financial while accomplished this thesis.

 Her beloved man, Dani, thanks for your support, motivation, and

suggestion.

 Her best friends, Nanda, Ayu, Desi, and her beloved friend , Dewi, thanks

for your love, happiness, and friendship that we have been through

together. And to all her friends in Applied Linguistics A and B 2010 And

2009 and many others that she cannot be mentioned one by one.

 All others whose name cannot be mentioned one by one for their help and

support. Thanks for everything. May Allah bless us. Amin.

Finally, the writer admits that this thesis still far from being perfect.

Therefore, the writer would like to invite the readers to give suggestion for the

improvement of this thesis later on.

Medan, Febuari 2014

The writer

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B. Conversational Implicature ... 7

C. Maxim and Its Types ... 8

E. Television and Television Program ... 15

F. Metro TV ... 16

G. Talk Show...18

H. Just Alvin and Alvin’s Biography...18

CHAPTER III : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 20

A. Research Design ... 20

B. The Source of Data ... 21

C. The Technique of Collecting Data ... 21

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CHAPTER IV : DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS ... 23

A. Data ... 23

B. Data Analysis ... 23

C. Research Findings ... 34

CHAPTER V : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 36

A. Conclusion ... 36

B. Suggestion ... 37

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LIST OF TABLES

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LIST OF APPENDICES

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of Study

In daily conversation, the conversation does not always run well. Some

times in our conversation there are so many implied meaning in our conversation

to make the conversation is more interesting than usual. Or another way,

sometimes the speakers always say something and mean either directly or

indirectly thing else. In conversation, the speaker(s) and the hearer(s) can

achieved an ideal communication when they have a good interaction and try to

cooperate to each other so that they understand and there is a correlation to the

current topic which they talk (Yule,1996:4). Pragmatics is study of how more gets

communicated than is said. Pragmatics discuss about not only the implied

meaning but also the implied atitude or the way we make the conversation to

other(Grice:1975). Pragmatics will discuss more detail about how the people

comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in conversation.

Pragmatics has some aspects in studying, such as Deixis, Presupposition,

Performative, Implicature. According to Yule (1996) that Conversation

Implicature is one subtopic from Pragmatics which discuss about how the people

referring to indirect or implicit meaning of an utterance derived from context that

is not present from its conventional use. Grice's theory of conversational

implicatures is considered as one of the basic and most interesting theories in the

history of pragmatics(Levinson 97; Davies ; Soames). Some implicatures are

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Most circumstances, the assumption of cooperation is so pervasive that it

can be stated as a cooperative principle of conversation and elaborated in four

sub-principles, called maxims (Yule, 1996: 37). Grice divided four conversational

maxim from further analysis the Cooperative Principle. There are Maxim of

Relation, Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of Quality, and Maxim of Manner. Even

some rules have been accepted by people, but sometimes people still conciously

or unconciously to break those rules. This phenomenon makes the writer

interested to analyze the types of maxim are flouted by the speakers and then also

takes the dominant one are flouted by the speakers. Because the flouting of maxim

describe situations in which a maxim is being deribately disobeyed, with the

intention that the hearer still understand about the case. And the writer is

interesting for to do this research in talk show program. Because the writer wants

to know how the speakers in televisiom program can break the rules or flout the

maxim in their conversation. The writer choose Just Alvin Talk Show as the data.

Just Alvin Talk Show is a program on Metro TV. Just Alvin presents the

actress , actors , and also the most famous figures in Indonesia. The sides of their

life will be revealed through an exclusive and interesting interview. All the figures

as its guest will be comfortable being interviewed by the known-well host, named

Alvin. Alvin is the Host who has good relation with almost all the actresses,

actors, or other famous figures. It makes all the guest will enjoy to share

everything with him. And sometimes, it makes the speakers will make some

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There are some previous studies of flouting the maxim which makes me

get the inspiration to do the analysis . One of the study , named Annisa(2013)

entitled “The Flouting of Grice’s Conversational Maxims by The Main Character

in The Dictator Movie“. That study discovers that the main character in the

movie flouts all types of conversational maxims; maxim of quantity, maxim of

quality, maxim of relation and maxim of manner.

With those explanations above, The writer choose the episodes “ In

Memoriam Ustad Jefri Albuchory” and “ The Journalist”, which invited Ustad

Jefri ,Ustad Yusuf Mansyur, Desi Anwar, Rahmah Sarita,Tina Talisa,Meutya

Hafid. The writer is interested to make this research in those episode, because it is

interesting to know how the starguests and the host still make a good contribution

in their conversation, even any flouting maxims in their conversation . As the

people know the Host is Alvin who is the one of the good master of ceremony

and the starguests are Ustad and journalists who expert in their profession as a

good speaker.. It is impossible for the host and the starguests dont know about

conducting of the good conversation. So, Perhaps with this analyzing , the writer

will get some types of maxim they are flouted, and get also the dominant of

flouting maxim in their conversation. Sometimes, the speakers flout the maxim

conciously or unconciously, because they want to be more informative, making

sure, agreeing or making jokes depending on the purpose and the situation under

their conversation. And with this study also, the writer wants to conclude the

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B. The Problem of Study

This study examines the following questions:

1. What types of maxim are flouted in Just Alvin Talk Show?

2. What type of maxim is dominantly flouted in the program?

3. In what contexts are the maxims flouted?

C. The Objectives of the Study

In the relation to the problems of study, the objectives of study are:

1. To describe types of maxim are flouted by the speakers in Just Alvin

Talk Show, episodes “ In Memoriam Ustad Jefri Albuchory” and “The

Journalist”.

2. To derive the dominant type of maxim is flouted by the speakers in that

Talk Show.

3. To describe the contexts of the maxims flouting in Just Alvin Talk show ,

episodes “ In Memoriam Ustad Jefri Albuchory”and “The Journalist”.

D. The Scope of the Study

In this research, the writer is limited on the flouting of maxims as found in

the utterances of the speakers in Just Alvin talk show based on Grice’s theory

(maxim of relation, maxim of quantity, maxim of quality and maxim of manner).

The data are taken from an episodes which are invited some ustad and journalists,

in episodes “ In Memoriam of Ustad Jefri Albuchory “(april,24th2013) and “The

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E. Significance of Study

Findings of the study are expected to be useful in theoretically and

practically. Theoretically, it is expected to be useful for expand the knowledge for

other students who are attracted in learning Cooperative Principle and Maxims,

especially on analyzing types of maxim in Conversational Implicature.

Pratically , the findings potentially clarify implicatures for student’s

learning language. Also potentially make the other reseracher want to find the

other problem that still related to cooperative principle , maxim , and especially in

analyzing the flouting the maxim in the conversation, whether in talk show, novel,

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