Flouting Maxims on Grice’s maxims in the drama “The Death of a Salesman”

ENGLISH: Communication needs the effectiveness and efficiency of delivering contribution of information that is easier for the speaker and the hearer. That is way, Grice offers to use the theory of cooperative principles to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation between the speaker and the hearer, which consists of maxim, a basic assumption and it can be changed. There are four maxims, namely maxims of quality, quantity, manner, and relevance. Flouting is analyzed in this study because the maxims are violated and overtly broken. It also causes the sentences have some implied meanings and sometimes it is difficulty to understand because the information is more or less informative. The research problem in this thesis is how the maxim of quantity, quality, relevance, and manner flouted in the drama of “ The Death of a Salesman”. A descriptive qualitative method is used because the data are explained descriptively. The data are taken from the utterance of dialogue from drama that consists of two acts and 111 pages. After the data identified and analyzed, it was founds that all of the four flouting maxims can be found. The maxims were maxim of quality, quantity, relevance, and manner. In this drama, the utterance flouting maxim of quantity is too long. Meanwhile, the contribution maxim of quality is absurd. Flouting maxim of relevance happens when the speaker says unrelated topic, and the flouting maxim of manner that the speaker says is evoking curiosity, and it disorders the utterance. Finally, it is suggested that this study will be continued by the futures researcher. So far, people have tended to study literature from the aesthetic values (as literary criticism). This study also serves an example of how applied linguistics by using Grice’s maxims can be used to analyze literature. Then, the English teachers are suggested to pay attention to the significance of flouting in all kinds of communication to enrich the students knowledge on the parts of discourse. It is also suggested to further researchers to study linguistics in different objects