THE PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN CONVERSATION AMONG CHILDREN IN PLAYSTATION RENTAL

Abstract

The title of this research is Pragmatic Analysis of The Cooperative Principle in Conversation Among Children in Playstation Rental. The purpose of this research is to find the type of cooperative principle maxim that found in conversation among children in rental playstation and explain the meaning of utterances in a conversation among children in playstation rental. The data source in this research is the conversation among children in playstation rental. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The grand theory used in this research is the cooperative principle maxim proposed by Grice (1975, p. 45). The finding of the research indicates there are 14 data conversations, the cooperative principle maxim include maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation, maxim of manner, flouting maxim and violation maxim. The researcher found 3 data conversations contains maxim of quality, 1 conversation maxim of quantity, 6 conversations maxim of relation, 3 conversations flouting of maxim of manner and 1 violation of maxim. After found the cooperative principle maxim in the conversation, then the researcher explain the meaning of each utterance from the children conversation because conversations among children while at the Playstation rental it has own uniqueness.