Your professor often goes off on tangents, talking about current events and stories about her weekend instead of discussing the content that is the focus of the day’s lesson. which conversational maxim does your professor violate

The conversational maxim that the professor violates is the relation. It is because professor discusses topics that are not related to the topic that she is going to discuss, which is why she is violating the relation. She focus her attention of discussing events that is happening on her life rather than focusing on teaching the topic that she should be teaching such as the tangents.