Maxim Variation, Conventional And ParticularizedImplicature On Students’ Conversation

Conversation is one of the activities that students do in their lives. Conversation is in relation to the maxim and implicature. Without realizing, the students usually violate and obey the maxim. Thereby, this study aims at knowing the types of maxim and implicature. The study used qualitative design. This study used transcription of the students’ conversation. Besides, this study used coding analysis. The findings of this study showed that most of the students obeyed the maxims of quality, quantity, manner and relevance, however, some students still disobeyed the maxims. Furthermore, there were two types of implicature that the students did in conversation namely conventional and conversational implicature. Therefore, by knowing the maxim and the implicature, the students can know the role in the conversation.