This research is a pragmatic study that aims to find out conversational
implicature that is generated by non-observance of maxim in TIME Magazine’s
interview with Donald Trump. It is also to discover the meaning of the conversational
implicature that has been found. The writer uses the theory of Cooperative Principle
proposed by Paul Grice for this study. The data are collected by reading the interview
transcript. Qualitative method is applied to analyze the collected data.
The result shows that there are fifteen conversational implicatures that is
generated by non-observance of maxims. They are the non-observance of the maxim
of quantity, the maxim of quality, the maxim of manner, and the maxim of relevance.
Donald Trump has also done three of the five types of the non-observance of the
maxims which are flouting, violating, and opting-out. In this interview, the type of
the non-observance that he often does is flouting. Furthermore, Trump tends to flout
the maxim of quantity the most. He blatantly makes his contribution in the
conversation more informative than what is required. There are nine data which
indicate it.
This study concludes that Trump tends to give more information than what is
needed for a certain reason. He does not give a brief answer because he wants to
make the public understand clearly what he says. It seems that he has been this way
since he was still a businessman. He tends to give a long answer when he is asked
about something. Moreover, he is now considered as a politician since he runs for the
2016’s presidential election. He needs public to vote for him in the election, so he
does not want the public to misunderstand his views and plans for the United States
in a wrong way

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