The non-observance of grice's cooperative principle and conversational implicature in Cristiano Ronaldo's interview on the Jonathan Ross show

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the non-observance of maxims that contains in the conversation between Jonathan Ross, the presenter of The Jonathan Ross Show, and Cristiano Ronaldo as the guest that published in YouTube on November 14th, 2015 using the cooperative principle and conversational implicature theory which was initiated by Paul Grice. This research uses qualitative methodology and documentation technique as the data collecting method.As the results, this research contains nineteen non-observance of maxims that performs by Jonathan Ross and Cristiano Ronaldo. Those nineteen non-observance of maxims consist of three types of maxim?s non-observance, which are flouting a maxim, violating a maxim, and opting out a maxim. Overall, the speakers has performed sixteen times of flouting a maxim, two times of violating a maxim, and two times of opting out a maxim. Every maxim?s non-observance that occurs in this conversation also generates conversational implicature and there are only four generalized conversational implicatures while the rest are particularized conversational implicatures because the topic of this conversation mostly discusses about the personal life of Cristiano Ronaldo which requires special knowledge to understand the implicit meaning in their utterances.ix, 58 hlm.; ilus.; 25 cm