SOCIO-PRAGMATIC STUDY; THE OBSCURITY OF GRICEAN MAXIMS (COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE RULES) [The Study of Flouted Maxims in Conversation through Gender Categories] Oleh: Jaftiyatur Rohaniyah (Institut Agama Islam Nurul Jadid & Alumni Pascasarjana Unesa) Abstract: Flouting maxims was a kind of violation on cooperative principles which consist of four maxims. In this case, cooperative principles were cooperation between speaker and hearer to make successful communication. In doing conversation, it was suggested to make the contribution as informative as is required and do not make the contribution more informative than required, do not say what believed to be false, make the contribution relevant and avoid obscurity and ambiguity. These all must be obeyed in doing conversation in order to make a successful communication according to Grice. If it is violated by speaker, it is called by flouting the maxims. The speaker in this case has the intention to arise his implicature. It often used in classroom interaction when teacher and students doing conversation especially in speaking class. It was almost done by students in answering the teacher’s question, where the students was not male students only, but also female students are on that part. Theoretically, female identified as a talkative person more than man. It means that female has ability to show her emotion by producing too much word in conversation which was able to arise implicature. This part can effect to the cooperative principles to make successful communication. Thus, it was true that gender hold the important rule in pragmatic study. Key words: Flouting Maxims, Classroom Conversation, Gender INTRODUCTION Classroom interaction is something important. That is the process where the teachers transfer knowledge and other educational features. The teacher or even a lecturer needs to communicate widely in giving understanding for students. Practically, interaction and conversation become successfully received when the students get the teachers’ intended meaning when explaining the point of study in the classroom. Other way, there will be some theories of making interaction or conversation which is called by ‘cooperative principles’ to make a good and relevance communication between speaker and hearer. Thus, they will have a successful conversation if the hearer understands the context of what speaker said. This means, both speaker and hearer should mutually cooperate with CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by STAIN Pamekasan Jurnal Online (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri / State College of Islamic Studies Pamekasan)