Nobita’s Conversational Strategies: A Pragmatic Analysis of Flouting Maxims in Stand By Me Doraemon 2

I Pande Komang Ari Wangsa; I Gusti Ayu Agung Sintha Satwika

doi:10.24256/ideas.v14i2.12225

Authors

I Pande Komang Ari Wangsa Department of English Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar, Indonesia
I Gusti Ayu Agung Sintha Satwika Department of English Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v14i2.12225

Keywords:

flouting maxims; Grice's cooperative principle; pragmatics; conversational implicature

Abstract

Maxim flouting enables speakers to convey implied meanings without expressing them directly. This study investigates how Nobita, the main character in Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (2020), flouts Grice's (1975) conversational maxims and the implicatures generated by those utterances.. This happens because conversation is guided by an implicit agreement to cooperate, a concept introduced by Grice (1975) in his Cooperative Principle. When a speaker openly breaks one of the four maxims under this principle, quantity, quality, relation, or manner, while still expecting to be understood, the utterance is said to flout the maxim and produce an additional meaning known as implicature. This paper looks at how Nobita, the main character of Stand By Me Doraemon 2 (2020), flouts these maxims throughout the film. A descriptive qualitative approach was employed. Data consisted of Nobita's utterances in the film, which were identified, transcribed, classified according to Grice's four maxims, and analyzed in their conversational contexts.. Relation was the most frequently flouted maxim, accounting for 8 of the 14 cases (57.14%), followed by manner (3 cases, 21.43%), quality (2 cases, 14.29%), and quantity (1 case, 7.14%). This study examines how Nobita flouts Grice's conversational maxims and explores the conversational implicatures generated by those utterances rather than lying outright or staying silent, which points to topic-shifting as his main coping mechanism when he feels cornered. This study contributes to pragmatic research on flouting maxims by examining an animated family film, a type of text that has received comparatively less scholarly attention than live-action productions.

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