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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is a study which uses discourse analysis
theory to analyze the conversation in SCTV program
'Dunia Bintang'. This study is trying to look for the
violation which exists in that conversation, also it would
like to explain the causes of that violation.
the writer used the qualitative approach and the
data were taken by recording from and cassette
recorder. There are four conversation that will be analyzed
by the writer. The interviewer in this program is
Inggrid Wijanarko and the interviewees are Ita purnamasari,
Prayudi, Andre Hehanusa, and the last Elma Theana.
To be able to analyze that conversation the writer uses
the theory of Conversational Principles by Paul Grice that
is used to look for the violations and the theory of
Politeness Principles by Geoffrey Leech to explain that
violations. Besides those theories the writer also uses
Searle's categories of illocutionary acts to help to
categorize the Politeness Principle maxim. From this study
it is found that the violations of conversational principles,
especially the quantity maxim is important, that
makes the conversation not monotonous.