<![CDATA[Keywords: Cooperative principle, Flouting maxim, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs This study is about maxims in conversations which are flouted in the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. There are two problems of the study to be solved, namely: (1) what are the types and the implied meaning of the flouting of maxims found in the characters of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs? (2) what is the purpose of the flouting of maxims by the characters’ utterances of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs?This study uses qualitative approach to analyze movie conversations in orderto answer the research problems that have been stated.The result of the study shows that there are 42 flouting of maxims consisting of 11 maxims of quantity, 7 maxims of quality, 16 maxims of relation, and 8 maxims of manner. There are some implied meanings of the characters in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs such as: the characters flout the maxim to hide his feeling, to convince people, to make detail explanation, and to have comfortable situation. The purpose of flouting maxims are delivering their expression, hiding the truth, avoiding bad things which might occur, and keeping the other feeling.It is suggested to the next researchers to consider about context in analyzingtheir data by using consecutive scenes. The next researchers could continueinvestigating the most flouted maxim found by applying other theory of context. The next researchers could also use the various approaches to analyze the utterances in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs movie such as speech act, politeness, etc.]]>
