Communication happens when the speaker and hearer are cooperative in a
conversation. The participants must understand about the topic or conversation to
avoid misunderstanding. The participants sometimes can flout the maxim when
they seem to be uncooperative. The aims of this study are to describe what are the
types of flouted maxim found and what are the strategies used to flout the maxim
in the Finding Dory Movie. Descriptive qualitative method was applied in this
study. In this study, the data were the utterances which were consisting of flouted
maxim spoken by the main characters in Finding Dory Movie. The contexts of the
data were the dialogues containing flouted maxim. Source of data in this study
was the scripted text of the Finding Dory movie. The researcher herself was the
primary instrument in this study while the data sheet as the second instrument.
Meanwhile, the data were collected by watching the movie, printed out the
scripted text, categorize the data, make a list as the data classification and give
codes of each flouted maxim. The data analysis was conducted by classifying
utterances consisting of flouted maxim, described the types of flouted maxim,
examined the flouted maxim and the conclusion of the Finding Dory movie was
drawn. The results of the study were all the types of maxim were flouted in the
Finding Dory movie and the strategies used to flout the maxim are hyperbole,
irony, giving too little information, giving too much information, being irrelevant
and being obscure.