Flouting Maxim Used by the Main Character in the Edge of Seventeen Movie a Thesis By: Tracy Rabecca H Reg. No. 160705075 Departm
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FLOUTING MAXIM USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN MOVIE A THESIS BY: TRACY RABECCA H REG. NO. 160705075 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FACULTY OF CULTURAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2021 FLOUTING MAXIM USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN MOVIE A THESIS BY: TRACY RABECCA. H REG. NO. 160705075 SUPERVISOR CO-SUPERVISOR Dr. Masdiana Lubis, M. Hum Ely Hayati Nasution, S.S., M. Si NIP. 195706261983032001 NIP. 198507032017062001 Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies of Sumatera Utara Medan in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from Department of English DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2021 2 Aprroved by the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan as thesis for The Sarjana Sastra Examination Head, Secretary, Prof. T. Silvana Sinar, M.A., Ph. D Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A., Ph. D NIP. 19540916 198003 2 003 NIP. 19750209 200812 1 002 3 Accepted by the Board of Examination in partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara, Medan. The examination is held in Department of English Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara on Thursday, February 04, 2021 Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S. NIP. 19600805 198703 1 001 Board of Examiners Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A., Ph.D. Dr. Masdiana Lubis, M. Hum Prof. Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A. 4 AUTHOR‟S DECLARATION I, TRACY RABECCA H, DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE AUTHOR OF THIS THESIS EXCEPT WHERE REFERENCE IS MADE IN THE TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS CONTAINS NO MATERIAL PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE OR EXTRACTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM A THESIS BY WHICH I HAVE QUALIFIED FOR OR AWARDED ANOTHER DEGREE. NO OTHER PERSON‟S WORK HAS BEEN USED WITHOUT DUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN THE MAIN TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED FOR THE AWARD OF ANOTHER DEGREE IN ANY TERTIARY EDUCATION. Signed : Date : Feb 04th, 2021 5 COPYRIGHT DECLARATION NAME : TRACY RABECCA H TITLE OF THESIS : FLOUTING MAXIM USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN MOVIE QUALIFICATION : S1/SARJANA SASTRA DEPARTMENT : ENGLISH I AM WILLING THAT MY THESIS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR REPRODUCTION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE LIBRARIAN OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT USERS ARE MADE AWARE OF THEIR OBLIGATION UNDER THE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. Signed : Date : Feb 04th, 2021 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENT First and foremost, all praises and thanks to Jesus Christ, the Almighty God, for His showers of blessings and loves, so I can complete this thesis successfully. Second, I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Masdiana Lubis M.Hum and my co-supervisor, Ely Hayati Nasution, S.S., M.Si. , for providing invaluable advice, guidance, and support throughout the process of writing this thesis. I also would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara, Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S., the Head and the Secretary of English Department, Prof. T. Silvana Sinar, M.A., Ph.D. and Mr. Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A., Ph.D. and all of the lectures and staff of English Literature Department for the kindness, knowledge, opportunities, and facilities given to me during my study at this university. I also would like thank to Bang Kirno who always help me when I need information or something about college. I dedicate my sincere gratitude to without whom I would not have made it through my bachelors degree, my beloved parents Herdion Hasugian and Nurhaidah Sidauruk for being the best parents in entire galaxy, for loving me unconditionally, for the eternal supports and for the shoulders I can lean on whenever I have hard times especially during these college life. I am extremely grateful to my beloved sisters and brother, Ditha Yohana Hasugian, May Celine Hasugian, and Marco Elvan Hasugian for being born as my another halfs, for always be there to encourage and support me, and 7 for being places where I can confide my stories. I am also dedicate massive thank you to my big family who I can not mention one by one for always encourage and support me, giving me love and pray so I can finish my bachelor degree. I am also extremely grateful for being part of Sasing (A)lliance since the first day of college years, especially, lambe ngopi, black hole, BnW, disfam, and the villagers. Thank you for being my friends, showering me with care, love and support. For my besties Zizi, Rugun and Desmery thank you for everything, thank you for accompany me through ups and downs these college dramas. I wish our friendship will last a lifetime. And last, I am grateful for having Martua Silaban, the loved one who always encourage and support me along this time to finish my thesis. Finally, my thanks go to all the people who have supported me to complete the research work directly or indirectly. Medan, February 04, 2021 Tracy Rabecca H Reg. No.160705075 8 ABSTRACT This thesis entitled “Flouting Maxim used by The Main Character in The Edge of Seventeen Movie”. It is a study about flouting maxim under Grice‟s cooperative principle theory and the effects of flouting maxim itself under Austin‟s Perlocutionary effect theory.The objectives of this research are to identify the kinds of flouting maxim used by the main character in The Edge of Seventeen movie, and to find out the effect of flouting maxim performed by the main character in that movie. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were twenty dialogues of the movie containing flouting maxim. In analyzing the data, the researcher find out that Nadine as the main character of the movie flouted all types of maxim. The most flouted maxim is maxim of quantity and the least flouted maxim is maxim of quality and maxim of manner. For the effects, Nadine only used seven effects based on Austin‟s Perlocutionary effect theory, they are convincing, boring, annoying, causing, insulting, getting the hearer to do something and, getting the hearer realize something. Further, the effect that is mostly performed by Nadine is getting the hearer realize something. Keywords: Cooperative Principle, Flouting Maxim, Perlocutionary Effect, The Edge of Seventeen 9 ABSTRAK Penelitian ini berjudul “Flouting Maxim Used by the Main Character in the Edge of Seventeen Movie”. Penelitian ini membahas tentang pelanggaran maksim berdasarkan teori prinsip kooperatif yang digagas oleh Grice dan, efek dari penggunaan pelanggaran maksim berdasarkan teori efek perlokusi yang digagas oleh Austin. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pelanggaran maksim apa saja yang dilakukan oleh tokoh utama dalam film The Edge of Seventeen dan fungsi dari pelanggaran maksim yang dilakukan oleh tokoh utama dalam film The Edge of Seventeen. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif. Data penelitian ini adalah dua puluh dialog film yang mengandung pelanggaran maksim. Dalam menganalisis data, peneliti menemukan bahwa Nadine sebagai tokoh utama film tersebut melanggar semua jenis maksim. Maksim yang paling sering dilanggar adalah maksim kuantitas dan maksim yang jarang dilanggar adalah maksim kualitas dan maksim cara. Untuk efek, Nadine hanya menggunakan tujuh fungsi berdasarkan teori efek perlokusi oleh Austin yaitu meyakinkan, membosankan, mengganggu, menyebabkan, menghina, membuat pendengar untuk melakukan sesuatu dan, membuat pendengarnya menyadari sesuatu. efek yang paling banyak dilakukan oleh Nadine adalah membuat pendengarnya menyadari sesuatu. Kata kunci: Prinsip Kerjasama, Pelanggaran Maksim, Efek Perlokusi, The Edge of Seventeen 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENT.................................................................................................. 1 ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................... 9 ABSTRAK ........................................................................................................................ 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................... 11 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 15 1.1 Background of the Study .................................................................................... 15 1.2 Problems of the Study .............................................................................................. 19 1.3 Objectives of the Study ............................................................................................ 20 1.4 Scope of the Study .................................................................................................... 20 1.5 Significance of the Study ......................................................................................... 21 1.5.1 Theoretical Significance ...................................................................................... 21 1.5.2 Practical Significance .......................................................................................... 21 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ............................................................. 22 2.1 Pragmatics ..........................................................................................................