Flouting maxims and the implications to major characters in Paulo Coelho's the Winner Stands Alone
Abstract
Communication needs the effectiveness of delivering information from the speaker to the hearer. Due to this reason, Griece offers to use the theory of cooperative principle to avoid misunderstanding between the speaker and hearer which consist of maxims. Aside from cooperative principle, Svoboda promotes politeness theory (maxims) that also has an enormous influence in a successful conversation. However, the speakers and the hearers as the participants of communication sometimes violate the maxims. The violation of maxims can cause flouting maxims. This paper is focused on analyzing flouting maxims on Igor as the main character in Paulo Coelho’s The Winner Stands Alone novel context and their implications of those communication breakdowns to the other major characters in the novel. Referring to the descriptive analysis of the novel, it was revealed that Igor had violated maxims in the cooperative principle was denoted by various indicators, namely redundancy, less informative, out of topic, obscurity, ambiguity, and disorderliness. Moreover, sometimes Igor did not take account at others’ feeling by violating six maxims in the politeness principle. Hence, Igor as the main character in the novel found himself in troubles in his relationship with girlfriends, wife, and colleagues. Finally, the findings can be used to raise the novel readers’ awareness on the importance of cooperative principle and politeness principle to be applied in real life communication in order to provide knowledge for the readers on how to apply language by making them aware of possible violation.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFArticle Metrics
Abstract view : 1004 times | PDF view : 659 timesDOI: https://doi.org/10.23971/jefl.v4i2.76
Article Metrics
Abstract view : 1004 timesPDF - 659 times
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2014 JOURNAL ON ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (JEFL)
License URL: http://e-journal.iain-palangkaraya.ac.id/index.php/jefl
JEFL is published by Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya in collaboration with the Association of Teachers of English Linguistics, Literature and Education (ELITE Association) in Indonesia [MoU manuscript].
Editor and Administration Address:
Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya, Jalan G. Obos Komplek Islamic Centre Palangka Raya, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, Postal Code 73111, Email: [email protected], Website: http://e-journal.iain-palangkaraya.ac.id/index.php/jefl
OAI address of JEFL is available at http://e-journal.iain-palangkaraya.ac.id/index.php/jefl/oai
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.