Page 1 of 12 AN ANALYSIS OF THE VIOLATION OF GRICE’S MAXIMS IN THE 300 MOVIE Deby Zuriatmo 1 , Yusrita Yanti 2 , Nova Rina 2 1 Student of English Department, Faculty of Humanity, Bung Hatta University E-mail: dbymesindieself@yahoo.com 2 Lecturer of English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bung Hatta University Abstract In general conversation usually happen cooperative principle. In conversation people tend do the violation of cooperative principle. Violation in conversation it is not only found in daily life, but also found in conversation of the movie. Cooperative principle has relation with maxims. In this thesis the writer describe about violation of Grice’s Maxims in 300 movie. This study has two purposes: (1) To know what Maxims that violated in conversation of 300 movie. (2) To know what Maxims that most often violated in conversation of 300 movie. In analyzing conversation of 300 movie, the writer applies Grice’s Maxims theory. Contexts become the main influence of conversation in 300 movie (Physical Context by Crabtree 1991:233). The data are taken from internet. The writer use description technique to analysis the data. The data is script (conversation) of 300 movie. The data separated into two groups, maxims of quantity and maxims of relevant. In findings the writer makes table and classify into two of context that include to maxims of quantity and maxims of relevant. The analysis and findings shows what conversation in 300 movie that has violation maxims of quantity and violation maxims of relevant. The context that accord with conversation in 300 movie is physical context (where the Speaker and Hearer take place). Keywords: conversation, grice’s maxims, implicature, cooperative principle, context. Introduction In general conversation usually happen cooperative principle. In conversation people tend do the violation of cooperative principle. Violation in conversation that make the writer interest to analyze this research. Cooperative principle has relation with maxims. Maxims is rule in conversation that must be do it in interact with other. The writer see the violation from point of view of maxims. Based on theory of Grice, maxims can be devide into four maxims, maxims of Quantity, maxims of Quality, maxims of Relevant, and maxims of Manner. The maxim is a rule which must be obeyed by the communicator (speakers and listeners) in doing interaction textually or personally in order to have communication process to be done smoothly. In accordance with the cooperative principle, Grice has categorized the cooperative principle into four maxims; relevance, quality and clarity (manner). The names of