224 | LEXICON, Volume 7, Number 2, October 2020 Volume 7, Number 2 (October 2020) Pages 224-232 https://doi.org/10.22146/lexicon.v7i2.66572 Lexicon https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/lexicon The Violation of Conversational Maxims in the Movie Series Divergent Adelia Fatmawati Pradani, Thomas J.P. Sembodo* English Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia *Corresponding Author: thomassembodo@ugm.ac.id This research focuses on identifying the types of conversational maxims violated by the characters in a feature film trilogy entitled The Divergent Series. This research also aims to explain the functions of the violation of conversational maxims in the series. The result shows that there are 100 violations of conversational maxim in Divergent series, and among those, there are 43 violations of maxim of relevance (43%), which is the most frequently occurred in the movie. The second violation identified is the violation of maxim of manner, which reaches 24 violations (24%), and the third frequently occurring violation is violations of maxim of quantity with 22 numbers of violation (22%)/. The least occurring violation found in the movie is violation of the maxim of quality, which reaches 11 numbers of violation (11%). There are several functions of the violation of conversational maxim found in the movie: keeping a secret, concealing half of the information, avoiding certain topic/question, and confusing the hearer. Keywords: Divergent series, cooperative principle, conversational maxims, violation of conversational maxims. People use many kinds of ways to make the conversation with their pairs interactive. Those varieties are applied to define types and characteristics of a conversation. People are also required to cooperate with each other in order to make the conversation work well. Grice (1975) proposes a theory about cooperative principles in conversation, which consists of four pragmatic sub principles. Those four pragmatic sub principles are called maxims. However, a conversation can still be understood even though it does not follow the cooperative principles. When cooperative principles are violated, the role of contexts takes their functions to create implicatures. Grice (1975) states that there are five ways of failing in the observance of the maxims; such as flouting conversational maxims, violating conversational maxims, infringing conversational maxims, opting out conversational maxims, and suspending conversational maxims. This research uses cooperative principles to observe the violation of conversational maxims by the characters in a film trilogy entitled The Divergent Series. This study examined the Divergent movie series: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. This series tells about the life of America’s young-adults in the dystopian world. Their life is divided into 5 factions. The founder of the city intentionally creates the factions to prevent the rebellion which is caused by human nature. Consequently, people living in ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION