Abstract name : putri nurul a’la student no. : 1406102020028 study program : english education title : a pragmatic analysis on types and reasons of flouting maxims performed by character alfi in movie the guys keywords: pragmatics, flouting maxim, character alfi, movie the guys the major objective of this research is to analyze the flouting maxims in one of the indonesian comedy movies, the guys. this research is focused on identifying the types of flouting maxims and to seek out the reasons behind those flouting performed by alfi character in the movie. the data for this qualitative research were collected from the utterances produced by character alfi containing flouting maxims. they were obtained by watching the movie and transcribing the movie script to ensure that no data were accidentally left out. the data was analyzed by classifying the data into types and reasons of flouting maxims, then the researcher verified all the data to ensure that all the