CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS IN A MOVIE ENTITLED “LIFE OF PI” WRITTEN BY DAVID MAGEE: A CONTEXT SITUATION AND GRICEAN MAXIM’S PERSPECTIVE Sang Nyoman Bagus Satya Wira Fakultas Sastra dan Budaya Universitas Udayana Jl. Nias No.13 Sanglah Denpasar 80114 Bali-Indonesia, Telp/Fax: 0361-224121 Email: bagussatyawira@rocketmail.com ABSTRAK Studi ini berjudul “Conversational Analysis in A Movie Entitled Life of Pi Written by David Magee: A Context Situation and Gricean Maxim’s Perspective.” Data dari studi ini diambil dari naskah film “Life of Pi” yang ditulis ulang oleh David Magee berdasarkan novel dengan judul yang sama karya dari Yann Martel. Film ini dipilih karena ia adalah film yang sangat menarik dan sukses sehingga menimbulkan banyak kritik dan pujian dari banyak pihak. Dan lagi film ini berhasil masuk nominasi untuk beberapa penghargaan film international sekaligus menang dalam beberapa kategori. Ruang lingkup pembahasan studi ini dibatasi dengan dua teori yang berbeda, yaitu teori “Context of Situation” yang dikemukakan oleh Halliday dan Hassan (1985), teori selanjutnya adalah teori “Gricean Maxim” yang dikemukakan oleh Grice (1989). Data yang telah diseleksi selanjutnya dianalisa dengan metode kualitatif. Beberapa elemen dari kedua teori terkait adalah “Field,” “Tenor,” “Mode,” “Maxim of Quantity,” “Maxim of Quality,” “Maxim of Relation,” dan “Maxim of Manner.” Ulasan dari setiap elemen berhasil mengungkap maksud dari percakapan yang telah diseleksi sebelumnya. Temuan dari hasil studi ini adalah makna yang tersirat di dalam ujaran-ujaran dari percakapan-percakapan di dalam film yang terkait. Kata kunci: Sastra, Sosiolinguistik, Percakapan, 1. Background of the Study The viewpoint of a conversation is based on human as social individual that always interact to one and another. Interaction is the act of two or more individuals and, however, it is the cause of conversation. The tool used to transfer the information in the conversation is language. Language is a part of society. People do different things with their language. They make an act such as interaction through their language in written or spoken form (Schiffrin, 1994:31). According to Gee (1999:11), language has a magical property: when we speak or write we craft what we have to say to fit the situation or context in which we are communicating. But, at the same time, how we speak or write creates that very situation or context. It seems, then, that we fit our language to a situation or context that our language, in turn, helped to create in the first place. In line with that utterance, language in my opinion is a tool for interacting and communicating between people, moreover, it is requiring a comprehension, agreement, and individual perspective to do the meaningful conversation. Grice in his “Logic and Conversation” (1975) stated a cooperative principle which is a basic underlying assumption we make when we speak to one another is that we are trying to cooperate with one another to construct meaningful conversations. Further, this study has the interest of interactional sociolinguistic. Interactional sociolinguistics is an approach to discourse analysis, or what in general is called