Fakultas Sastra Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto
Abstract
This study aims to find out and describe the maxim of conversation most violated
by students and the types of maxim violation in thesis exams. This is a kind of
descriptive qualitative research. The data are utterances containing maxim
violations by the students in thesis exams at the department of English education,
Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, State Islamic University of Raden
Intan Lampung in 2018/2019 academic year. The researcher used a
documentation method of the recordings of students’ thesis exams, and a notetaking
technique
in
collecting
the
data.
The
result
of
the
research
shows
that
among
the
13 utterances, quantity maxim was violated most with 5 utterances
(38.46%), subsequently followed by relation maxim with 4 utterances (30.76%).
Meanwhile both quality and manner maxims placed the third maxims most violated
by
the
students,
each
with
2
utterances
(15.38%)
respectively.
In
addition,
maxims
of
quantity,
quality,
relation,
and
manner
are
violated
by
the
students
in
thesis
exams, namely quantity, quality, relation, and manner maxims. The
violations are in the form of exaggerated information for quantity maxim, untrue
information for quality maxim, irrelevant information for relation maxim, and
confusing information for manner maxim
