CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS ON MEGHAN MARKLE AND OPRAH INTERVIEW: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

In human relations, communication is very important and cannot be
separated from everyday life. Conversation requires cooperation between the
speaker and the audience so that communication runs effectively and gets
something meaningful. Sometimes conversations do not work effectively because
one of the parties involved in the conversation doesn't cooperate. This study aims
to determine the maxims obeyed and violated by interview participants, as well as
to determine the contribution of the analysis of cooperative principles to
pragmatic learning. In this study the researcher used a qualitative descriptive
method. The researcher identified and classified the maxims that were obeyed and
violated by the interview participants. The researcher had found 232 utterances
which contained conversational maxim produced by interview participants.It was
found that 170 utterances of obedience with conversational maxims. The most
dominant type of obedience conversational maxim is maxim relation. It frequency
is 76 (44.7%), maxim quantity 40 (23.5%), maxim of manner 35 (20.6%), maxim
of quality 19 (11.2%). There were 62 violations of the conversational maxims.
Maxim quantity was the most dominant type of violation of the conversational
maxim. It frequency is 36 (44.7%), violated maxim quality 22 (9.7%), violated
maxim relation (19.4%), and violated maxim manner 8 (12.9%). The findings of
the data indicate that interview participants tend to obey maxims rather than
violate them. This research can gives contribute to Pragmatics lesson, especially
when the lecturer teaches material about conversational maxims. The findings of
the data about obedience and violating of maxims can be used as an example
reference for material on the analysis of conversational maxims
Keywords: coversational maxims, pragmatics, interview