PELANGGARAN PRINSIP KERJA SAMA DALAM FILM OUTSOURCED: SEBUAH ANALISIS PRAGMATIK LINTAS BUDAYA

The Violation of Cooperation Principles in Outsourced: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

Abstract

Apart from being an entertainment medium, films also function as research objects because they reflect the prevailing culture in a particular society. This study aims to investigate the violations of the cooperative principle by American and Indian characters in the film Outsourced (2006) based on cross-cultural pragmatics perspective. Film dialogues that serve as research data were analyzed based on their violations of the cooperative principle by Grice (1975) to be compared and related to the background of the characters’ cultural values. The final result of this study's findings indicates that violations of the cooperative principles are motivated by the cultural values of each character. However, for the findings on the American character, there is also discrepancy between the attitudes of the character through speech with his cultural background, which is triggered by specific conditions. Therefore, it can be concluded that in this film the American character is more flexible than the Indian characters in implementing their culture through speech.