Maxims Analysis in The Novel “Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go” by Patrick Ness

Abstract

Many floating maxim occur in novels that we read without realizing it, therefore the bassis of this research is to analyze the Cooperative Principle in the Novel "Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness. The cooperative principle theory used in this study was introduced by H.Paul.Grice's (1975). The purpose of this research is to analyze the floating maxims in the novel "Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go". This research is classified into qualitative descriptive research. The total number of violations in conversation in the novel Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go is 114. The percentage of each type of violation is as follows: (1) Maxim of Quantity is 9%, (2) Maxim of Quality is 10%, (3) Maxim of Relation is 62%, (4) Maxim of Manner is 19%. The most dominant floating maxim found in the novel "Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go is Maxim of Relation with 71 data or 62% of the total data. They sometimes violates the maxim of relation because they use informal language which not based on the grammer but they did understand the implicit meaning of the utterances. Floating maxim in the novel Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go has an impact on miss-communication between characters.