ABSTRACT

The research title is to know types of floating maxim. In more specific terms, this
research described the types of maxims that are flouted by all characters in Hotel
Transylvania 2 movie. This research was descriptive research, by the data of the research was the
play of Hotel Transylvania 2 movie in which the dialogues of the movie contain flouting maxim
which were spoken by the characters in Hotel Transylvania 2 movie. And the data sources of this
research was Hotel Transylvania 2 movie and supported by pragmatics theory related to the
movie to increase and add to the theory of floating maxim. The researcher used documentation
as collecting data techniques. The descriptive data was gotten from words, sentences, or picture
in every action in the movie. The data analysis was conducted by look for the original compact
disk (CD) of Hotel Transylvania 2 movie, watching and understanding the movie, looked for the
script, watched the movie again and read the transcript of the dialogue, selected and classified
the utterances performing maxim flouting in the movie and the researcher put all the data into a
data sheet. The results of the research are all types of maxim flouting are found in the movie.
They were floating maxim of quality, floating maxim of quantity, floating maxim of relation and
floating maxim of manner. Flouting maxim of quality is done by using hyperbole, irony, and
giving untrue statement. Flouting maxim of quantity is done by giving too little and too much
information. Flouting maxim of relation is done by being irrelevant. Meanwhile, flouting maxim
of manner is done by being obscure, not being brief, using obscure language, not being orderly
and using ambiguity. In terms of occurrence, flouting maxim of quantity is the most used type in
the movie, The second rank of floating maxim is floating maxim of relation and flouting maxim
of manner. And the last the type of flouting maxim having the lowest rank in the occurrences is
flouting maxim of quality.

Keywords: Pragmatics, Flouting Maxim, Hotel Transylvania 2 movie