Flouting Maxims in the Courtroom of Administrative Court

Grice’s Cooperative Principles consist of a set of
maxims which are fundamental to establish effective
communication. However, people tend to fail inobserving certain
maxims. This paper is aimed to describe the types of flouting
maxims in courtroom, specifically in Administrative Court since
people in the courtroom have their own purposes and needs
related to the case, they tend to produce flouting maxim to get
what they want.Descriptive qualitative research was applied in
this research. The data in thisresearch were clauses which consist
of flouting maxims in the courtroom of Administrative Court.The
source of the data wastaken from the courtroom of
Administrative Court. The recordedcases were about land affairs
and employment, because cases which handled by Administrative
Courts are those kinds of cases. The data was collected through
observation, video-recording, transcribing, sorting, enlisting, and
arranging the obtainable data systematically.The data was
analysed by using Grice’s theory of Maxim (1975) as the
guidance to select the appropriate data in this study.