Maxim of Quality in the Police Officer's Speech Acts: An Ethnography of Communication

Abstract

This research is motivated by the authors' interest in the phenomenon that arises regarding speech acts. Humans in this millennial era more often feel that the speech acts spoken between the speaker and the speech partner are inaccurate or inappropriate, causing misperceptions. That of course has an impact on the social relations of the speaker and the speech partner. Therefore, the principle of cooperation exists to see the extent of the discrepancy between speech acts between the speaker and the speech partner. The principle of cooperation has four maxims, namely the quantity, quality, relevance and method. The focus of this research is the principle of cooperation with the maxim of quality in SPKT police and community speech acts. The object of study is the Depok Metro Police SPKT police with the public who report all their problems in the Depok Metro Police SPKT. This research uses an ethnographic approach. The results of this study obtained 45 quality maxims data, both spoken by the police and the public.