The multiple violations of conversational maxim in living done by the characters of "desperate housewives" - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This is the study of Multiple Violations in Conversational Maxims in lying
done by the characters in some episodes of Desperate Housewives. In some
occasions, people may violate the maxims in order to lie, and to smooth their lies
they even do multiple violations. For that reason, the writer would like to analyze
the multiple violations. In her thesis, the writer wants to know what kind of
multiple violations that are violated by the characters and what is the purpose of
the characters to do it. In the analysis, the writer uses Grice?s (1975) theory of
Cooperative Principle, Brown and Levinson (1987) theory of saving Face, and
Christoffersen (2005) criteria of lying. The writer uses Desperate Housewives as
her data, particularly season two and three, which contain many lies and multiple
violations. To analyze the data, first, she finds the utterance with lies based on the
truth behind it and examines it using the theory of Cooperative Principle. Second,
the writer finds out the reason of the characters to do multiple violations using the
reason of lying and theory of saving face. As a result, the writer found that the
characters who do multiple violations can violate either two, three or even all of
the four maxims. The characters who violate all of the four maxims seem that they
want to eliminate any chance for the interlocutor to respond and those who violate
three of the four maxims seem to cover the truth by cheering and convincing the
interlocutor so that the speakers can achieve their desire easily, while, those who
violate only two of the four maxims show as if they want to lie gradually with the
purpose of building someone?s belief in order to create another lie in the future.

Contributor
• (94-029) Aylanda Hidayati Dwi Nugroho
• (82-006) Anneke Heritaningsih Tupan

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011681/ING/2007; Helen Natalia Yantoro (11403110)
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