The violation of politeness principles used by the characters in Spongebob Squarepants cartoon

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Novandini, Saraswati Henuk (2020) The violation of politeness principles used by the characters in Spongebob Squarepants cartoon. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research is descriptive-qualitative research. It means the research focuses more on words rather than number. Besides, this research uses theory to lead the analysis before collecting data. The data are taken from transcript of six episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants cartoon animation. The data are in form of utterances which contain violation of maxim uttered by the characters. The transcripts are obtained from the fan page website. After the transcripts have been obtained, the researcher collects the data by underlining and coding. With the existing data, the researcher starts to analyze the data by employing these steps: 1. identifying the data by doing coding process, 2. classifying the data, 3. discussing, and 4. making conclusion for the finding of the research. Based on the finding, first point the writer find all of the kind of maxim that are violated by the characters in SpongeBob Squarepants which are tact maim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. Agreement maxim is the most types of maxim violated by the characters. The second point is the intention of violating maxim used by the characters in SpongeBob Squarepants. To know the intention of violation maxim, the writer uses implicature to finds the intention of violating maxim. Because of implicature in the conversation cannot be categorized specifically, the writer decides to categorized the implicature based on the function. The writer found eight kinds of intention violating maxim which are to showing worry, to showing disbelieve, to showing dislike, to showing vexation, joking, lying, and boasting.