Types of Flouting Maxim of Humor in American movie The Upside Mutiara Aisyah, Anni Holila Pulungan, Siti Aisyah Ginting
Universitas Negri Medan
Abstract
The aim of this research was to find out the types of maxim that flouted to create humor in the movie The Upside. The research was conducted in descriptive qualitative research design. The data of this research is the script of The Upside movie become the source of data which is represent the flouting maxims of Cooperative Principle to create humor. Then the data were analysed by read and write technique or attentive observation. The result of this study, the types of flouting maxim were maxim quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation and maxim of manner. The most flouted maxim to create humor were maxim quality.
