NON-OBSERVANCE OF QUALITY MAXIM BY CHARACTERS IN BODY OF LIES MOVIE

Movie is created to entertain people and also created as a business. There are a lot of movie genres, they are, action, fantasy, documentary, drama, horror, etc. One of the genres that preferred by people is the action movie. It basically tells about shooting, war, and crime. This research aims to analyze non-observance of quality maxim by the characters in Body of Lies movie and also enrich people knowledge about cooperative principle. Paul Grice distinguishes non-observance aim into five types, violating, flouting, infringing, opting out, and suspending. This research uses qualitative research methods, which focuses only on the words spoken or utter by the characters in the movie and the result of it is presented in narration. The data obtained from movie and subtitle which helps the researcher to understand the utterances of what the characters utter. The result of the research shows that Roger Ferris does not observe the quality maxim as much as eight times, five of them are violates, two flouts, and one infringe, which means he dominates compared to other characters. Then, Ed Hoffman did not observe the quality maxim by doing violate the maxim once, Hani Pasha did not observe the quality maxim by doing flout the maxim once, Nizar did not observe the quality maxim by flout, and Al-Saleem also did not observe the quality maxim by doing infringe once