MAXIM ANALYSIS ON PRAIRIE SONGS BY PAM CONRAD: A PRAGMATIC STUDY

ABSTRACT

The research entitled Maxim Analysis on Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad; a Pragmatic Study tries to analyze the utterances uttered by the characters in the novel Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad dealing with observance and non-observance in applying Grice’s cooperative principle and Leech’s politeness principle. The objectives of the research are to identify the kinds of maxim in the utterances uttered by characters in Prairie Song, and to find out violations of maxim in the utterances uttered by characters in Prairie Songs.

This descriptive qualitative research uses pragmatic approach which refers to the speaker and the hearer as the participants in communication. In this analysis, the writer uses noting and recording technique to collect the data, then it is followed by its following techniques. The obtained data from the object of the research are analyzed by using Referential Method .

The result of the analysis shows that the writer finds ninety utterances which have obeyed and violated maxim. From those identified utterances, forty six utterances have obeyed cooperative principle while twenty four utterances have obeyed politeness principle, and also eighteen utterances have violated cooperative principle; those are quality maxim, quantity maxim, relation maxim and manner maxim.