Why Grice's Cooperation Principle Violated? : An Indonesian Sociocultural Context

Fatmawati, Zuriyati, Endry Boeriswati

2019

Abstract

This study aims to explain the reasons for violating Grice's cooperative principles in the sociocultural context of Indonesia. This study applied a phenomenology approach. The research data was collected through interviews with 79 students from various tribes in Indonesia namely the Malay, Minang, Javanese, Sundanese, Batak, Bugis, and Banjar tribes. The results showed that violations of quantity maxims occurred due to several reasons, namely: sharing information, being intimate, friendly/not arrogant, polite, in order to be clear/not to be asked again, refusing in a refined manner, habits, close friends. In the meantime, in quality maxim violations occurred for reasons of joking, nosy, insinuating, declaring prohibitions, lying, and annoying/angry. Furthermore, violations of the maxim of relevance occurred because of the context that is equally understood/habit, because it cannot do what is requested by the interlocutor, subtle refusal/indirect, in order to be polite, joking, in order the utterance is short, does not know the answer, annoyed, and avoid direct speech. For the maxim of manner, violations occurred for reasons of being polite, confused in giving answers, forgetting, nervous, in order the speech partner empathizes, avoids direct speech, because of secret speeches, certain vocabulary substitutes, niceties, lying, habits, and keeping a good relationship. This study implies that Grice's cooperative principle cannot be applied universally in all languages. This is because of the sociocultural context between one language and another is different.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fatmawati., Boeriswati E. and Zuriyati. (2019). Why Grice's Cooperation Principle Violated? : An Indonesian Sociocultural Context.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS, ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, pages 151-159. DOI: 10.5220/0008995701510159

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icels19,
author={Fatmawati and Endry Boeriswati and Zuriyati},
title={Why Grice's Cooperation Principle Violated? : An Indonesian Sociocultural Context},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,},
year={2019},
pages={151-159},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008995701510159},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,
TI - Why Grice's Cooperation Principle Violated? : An Indonesian Sociocultural Context
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Fatmawati.
AU - Boeriswati E.
AU - Zuriyati.
PY - 2019
SP - 151
EP - 159
DO - 10.5220/0008995701510159