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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe Cooperative Principle has an important role in the conversation. It should
be obeyed by the speaker and the hearer in order to have a smooth conversation.
Grice proposed the Cooperative Principles that are reflected in the four maxims of
conversation: they are, the Maxim of Quantity, the Maxim of Quality, the Maxim of
Relevance, and the Maxim of Manner. In a conversation, sometimes people may flout
those maxims for some certain reasons even though it does not mean that they fail to
communicate with each other. This study discusses the reasons of flouting the
conversational maxims in comedy serials Friends. The writer is interested in finding
out the mostly flouted maxim and the reasons behind the flouting done by the
characters in Friends because she realizes that maxims of conversation are important
in the conversation. The writer limits her study to the conversation in the three
episodes of serial Friends. In analyzing the data, she uses Grice?s theory of
conversational maxims. The writer uses descriptive approach to describe the reasons
behind the flouting of maxims by the characters in Friends. She puts the reasons of
each maxim in the table in order to make her easier knowing the most flouted maxim.
After doing the analysis, she has found out that the Maxim of Quantity is the most
flouted in Friends. Moreover, there are many reasons for flouting each maxim such as
being clear, being cynical, hiding something, ending the conversation, changing the
conversation topic.