personalities of the characters, e.g. that the reason why Jeffrey flouted the maxim of quantity
was to show his narcissistic characteristics. The reason why some characters used flouts less
frequently was also linked with their personalities, as with Annie who only made us of flouts
when she felt threatened by a peer, which did not happen very often.
An interesting topic for further research might be to use another comedy series that
centers on a group of people to see if the leader or the more dominant character of the group
is the one who uses the most flouts, and for what reason. It would be interesting to see if
flouting of the conversational maxims is a distinguishing feature of leaders. This can also be
interesting to test in real life, to see how different members of a group use flouts in everyday
life, for what reasons, and what person in the group flouts the most.