Title:
VIOLATIONS OF APPROBATION MAXIM IN SELECTED MOVIES

Authors:
Rizki Ashariah Sarwin , Abdul Hakim Yassi and Sukmawaty, Indonesia

Abstract:
Giving compliments to each other is one of the ways people express themselves through language. However, as one of the characteristics of politeness is not obligatory it made room for a violation to happen, and instead of giving high value to Os qualities, the speaker giving an unfavorable value to O’s qualities. The aim of the research were (1) to identify violation of approbation maxim in a direct conversation of characters in the selected movies, (2) to investigate types of violation, and (3) to explore how the use of taboo words influence politeness. The data were utterances from four selected movies, namely, Princess Diary 1, High School Musical 1, Wild Child, and The DUFF. The research used the qualitative research method. The result of the research show (1) there are 49 data of violations of the approbation maxim, (2) types of the violation based on Leech (2014) that occur in the selected movies were insulting, complaining, and telling off, (3) the use of taboo words or in other word swearing influence the rudeness of the utterances.