Research Article
Violation of Maxim in Paranoid Schizophrenia Patients’ Conversation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-11-2019.2296436, author={Amiruddin Eso and Ela Martisa and Junuda RAF}, title={Violation of Maxim in Paranoid Schizophrenia Patients’ Conversation}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Seminar on Languare, Literature, Culture and Education, ISLLCE, 15-16 November 2019, Kendari, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ISLLCE}, year={2020}, month={6}, keywords={cooperative principle paranoid schizophrenia tlc and violation maxim}, doi={10.4108/eai.15-11-2019.2296436} }- Amiruddin Eso
Ela Martisa
Junuda RAF
Year: 2020
Violation of Maxim in Paranoid Schizophrenia Patients’ Conversation
ISLLCE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-11-2019.2296436
Abstract
The present research is intended to find out the type of violation of maxim do by Paranoid Schizophrenia patients during their conversation and the causes of the violation. The method employed was descriptive qualitative approach and the data were obtained from six paranoid schizophrenia patients who were interviewed by co assistant doctor who in charge in mental hospital of South East Sulawesi. The utterances from the patients’ conversation are recorded then analyzed and classified by using Grice theory. Then the result of violation is analyzed to find out the causes of the violation by using Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language, and Communication (TLC) by Nancy Andreasen. The result of the research shows that patients indicate to violate three maxims proposed by Grice. The breakdowns are 6 utterances indicate the violation maxim of relation, 31 utterances indicate the violation maxim of quantity, and 10 utterances violate maxim of quality. The causes of violation are poverty of speech and tangentiality. It is concluded that the patients tend to shows form of disorganized speech production as well as adding exceed amount of information in their speech and also unreliable answer.