1378 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birci.v3i2.996 Maxims Deviation and Politeness Scale of Uang Panai Mahar Film by Using Leech's Perspective Juflyn Alim, Hanip Pujiati, Siti Gomo Attas, Eva Leiliyanti Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia juflynalim@gmail.com I. Introduction Language is the raw material in communicating in everyday life. Communication activities are the most basic things in human life to interact with each other. The use of language as a medium for communication is often influenced by social status, economics, education level, age, gender, and so on. The social context makes language dynamic. Furthermore, the use of this language can be felt by the speaker or speech partner, whether the language used in the speech event is polite or still not polite. Considering the use of polite language is the desire of everyone, so that communication can take place properly and to avoid failure in communicating in every speech event. Levinson in his book entitled "Pragmatics" provides limitation for the notion, "pragmatics is the study of those relations between language and context that are grammaticalized, or encoded in the structure of a language". Pragmatics is a language study that studies the relationship between language and its context. There are two types of contexts, which are social and societal contexts. Social context is a context arises as a result of interaction between community members in a particular social and cultural society. (Supriyadi, 2020) Speech events can occur in various places, including in social life, formal environments, literary works, films, and so forth. Furthermore, to measure the Abstract The lack of knowledge about the application of maxims and politeness scale in everyday life cause more violation of politeness in communication. Speech deviations also occur in the Uang Panai Mahar film which raises the cultural theme of a moral message..This study aims to discuss and describe the maxims deviation and politeness conversation from film. The data of this study are the form of maxims deviation and politeness scale by using Leech perspective. The data source in this study is Uang Panai Mahar film, which published by Makita Cinema Production, on August 25, 2016. The film lasted for 1 hour, 59 minutes and 42 seconds. This study used descriptive qualitative method. This study found out some of maxims deviations and politeness scales, they were 1) deviation of wisdom, 2) deviation of generosity, 3) deviation of rewards, 4) deviation of simplicity, 5) deviation of accuracy and 6) deviation of sympathy. Meanwhile the politeness scale of this film were 1) the loss and gain scale, 2) the choice scale, 3) the sustainability scale and 4) social distance scale. Keywords politeness in language; maximum deviation and scale; film panai