Ketidakpatuhan Maksim Perbualan dan Komunikasi Berkesan dalam “Soal Rakyat”
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
The effectiveness of communication is often linked to the observance of conversational maxims (MP) proposed by Grice (1975). There are four MPs proposed, namely Quantity (MPKTT), Quality (MPKLT), Relation (MPHUB) and Manners (MPCR). The non-observance of MP is considered as an ineffective communication. However, studies have shown that the non-observance of MPs does not mean that ongoing communications were ineffective. This analysis used an interview regarding politics-Soal Rakyat (SR) as a corpus, which was broadcasted on television. The analysis has two objectives: first, to classify the non-observance of MPs; and second, to discuss the purpose and factors of non-observance MPs and the effectiveness of the communication based on Malay perspective. Qualitative research methods were applied in the analysis including download, transcriptions and text analysis. The results show that the non-observance of all MPs occurred in SR with the MPKTT and MPCR dominating. There are five factors that influenced the non-observance of MPs, which are audience background, current issues, culture, communication’s context and the interlocutor’s credibility. The purpose of non-observance of MPs is to explain, to emphasise, to express anger/dissatisfaction, and to express honesty. In conclusion, the non-observance of MPs was found not to affect the effectiveness of communication and has refuted that MP Grice is universal and simultaneously rejects Grundy’s (2008) opinion. © 2020, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Effective communication, Interlocutor, Non-observance of maxims, Observance of maxims, Politics
Divisions
AcademyofMalayStudies
Publication Title
Issues in Language Studies
Volume
9
Issue
2
Publisher
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak