Communication principles are used to make successful interaction between
people using languages. In order to make the interaction can be understood among the
people, they should to speak in particular way. Communication principles has divided
into two kind of principles, namely cooperative principles and politeness principles.
Cooperative principles proposed by Grice in 1975, it has four principles call by maxim.
Grice introduced maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation, and maxim
of manner. Politeness principles composed by Leech in 1983, it has six maxim as the
principles. Leech presented tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim,
modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. In people daily life, those
principles had been implement in the way their talking. But because there are many
kinds of talking, sometimes people did not obey the principles, this is call flouting.
This research is focused on classifying the types of flouting communication
principles which have been done by speakers in a course call Cross Cultural
Understanding. The researcher uses Grice and Leech’s theories for analyzing the
flouting communication principles that found in the interaction of the speakers in the
course. This research uses descriptive qualitative method as the research method
because this research aim to provide a descriptive analysis of the data. The data in this
research are collected by reading the documentation meetings and taking notes the
dialogue that consists flouting of the principles using data cards, then the selected data
will be analyzed using the theories and the interviews with the person that did the
flouting.
After analyzing the data found, the researcher finds that all the maxim in
communication principles had been flout by the speaker in the course. The researcher
found most of the flouting are flouting of cooperative principles then followed by
flouting of politeness principles. Flouting of cooperative principles, they are; flouting
maxim of quantity (29), flouting maxim of quality (5), flouting maxim of relation (7),
and flouting maxim of manner (2). In other hand, flouting of politeness principles, they
are; flouting tact maxim (1), flouting generosity maxim (4), flouting approbation
maxim (2), flouting modesty maxim (3), flouting agreement maxim (7), and flouting
sympathy maxim (1). The most common purpose of the flouting maxim is when the
speaker give more or long information than requires to make them more active in the
teaching learning interaction.