The Types of Flouting Maxim by Governor Candidates of North Sumatera in Election Debate 2018

Linguistics is a study of language, It is competence
as being a persons potential to speak a language and linguistics
performance as the realization of that potential states
(Grudy:1993). It means that it is related to the use of language.
By using a language, semantics and pragmatics will be involved.
Semantics is study about meaning. This study deals with the
flouting maxim by Governor candidates of North Sumatera in
Election debate 2018. The objectives of the study were to find out
the types of flouting maxim used by governor candidates of North
Sumatera in the election debate, This study used the types of
flouting maxim by Cutting (2002) : flouting maxim of quantity,
flouting maxim of quality, flouting maxim of manner and flouting
maxim of relevance. The study was qualitative research. The data
were utterances from the candidates and the source of the data
taken from website www.youtube.com. The researcher found that
there were four types of flouting maxim by the candidates as
flouting maxim of quantity, flouting maxim of quality, flouting
maxim of manner and flouting maxim of relevance. All the types
of flouting maxim occured in debate. The most dominant flouting
maxim occured flouting maxim of quantity and the lowest
flouting maxim was flouting maxim of Quality.