Flouting of Conversational Maxims among Characters in Conclave (2024)
Keywords:
conclave, flouting maxim, illocutionary motivation, Gricean theory, Cutting theoryAbstract
This study analyzes the character interactions in the 2024 film Conclave with an eye on the Grice (1975) conversational maxims. Subsequently, the study intends to highlight the different varieties, i.e., types of maxim, frequency of maxim flouting, and classify using Cutting (2005), and explain the reasons behind it using Leech's (1983) Politeness Theory. The research employed a qualitative descriptive approach, which focuses on providing detailed and accurate descriptions of the data. In this study, seventy utterances drawn from the movie and its script were analyzed in depth to determine how conversational maxims were flouted. This enabled the researcher to analyze each utterance in its context straightforwardly, without recourse to cumbersome theories, thereby keeping the analysis grounded in the film's actual words. The findings indicate that all four Gricean maxims, which are the quantity maxim, quality maxim, relation maxim, and manner maxim, are violated in the film. The most frequent maxim flouting observed was the quality maxim (44.29%), in which the dialogue was often embellished, ironically. Of all the possible techniques, the most frequent was irrelevance (25.71%), followed by irony (21.43%) and hyperbole (14.29%). This film relies heavily on indirect and subtle means of communication. The dominant motivation is conflictive (54.29%), characteristic of characters differing in moral perspective and vehemently defending their positions. This study also contributes to the analysis of film by taking a pragmatic approach and demonstrating the use of indirect discourse as a strategy of counterargumentation in institutional settings.References
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