SUBMIT ARTICLE
ISSN: 2782- 893X
eISSN: 2799-0664

Conversational Maxims on Modern Fairytale Movies: A Gender-Based Comparison

IJAMS Publisher

AUTHOR(S)

Katherine V. Valencia



ABSTRACT

Acceding to the splendid scope of pragmatics, research aimed at introducing one of the very influential maxims of H. Paul Grice namely Conversational Implicature. The main point of the study is to test the applicability of Grice’s supposed principles which are Quantity, Quality, Relation and Manner to the transcribed dialogues of some fairy tale movies. The value of this study creates a large impact to the communication aspects of daily living as it allows being familiar in decoding intended meaning from the flouts and violations that is certain nowadays. This study aimed to classify the conversational maxims of selected modern Fairy Tale movies namely Frozen and Into the Woods as to followed and flouted from its transcribed dialogues. It also sought to analyze the implicature or the intended meaning of the flouted maxims and determine the significant differences in the maxims flouted by male and female characters. This employed the descriptive method of research that made use of content analysis and its results underwent qualitative interpretation. The transcription of the selected modern Fairy tale movie dialogues was used to gather data and come up with the analysis results. It was determined that these modern fairy tale movies have a lot of flouts done as a perfect study to focus on. Thus, people involved in communication cycle must be well-equipped in following the Conversational Maxims or Cooperative Principle of H.P. Grice to be in tract of conversations that creates linguistic understanding to the user of the language.