ANALYSIS OF MAXIM VIOLATIONS IN THE TED TALKS INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK
Abstract
An interview, especially regarding issues or phenomenal figures have currently received a lot of public attention. One of whom is Elon Musk, the co-founder and chairman of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. His interview in TED Talk entitled "Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022" also attracts the interest of the audience to add insight by listening to how he thinks and also his vision of the future of the world. In the interview, Elon Musk sometimes provides answers that are irrelevant to the questions, thus violating maxim of conversation. This research is aimed at analyzing maxim violations found in the interview. Qualitative descriptive analysis was used in this study. The result reveals that there are 15 maxim of quantity violations, 9 maxim of relation violations, 6 maxim of quality violations, and 4 maxim of manner violations. Maxim of quantity is mostly violated as the conversation is an interview in which the interviewee (Elon Musk) gives a lot of information and shares his thoughts regarding the topic of the interview. This research suggests that violating maxims is also needed in conversations including interview.References
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