A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF HUMOR AS REFLECTED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN PINK’S ACCEPTED MOVIE

Puspita, Cindy (2017) A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF HUMOR AS REFLECTED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN PINK’S ACCEPTED MOVIE. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This research aims to answer three objectives which are: (1) to identify the maxims which are flouted by the main characters to create humor in Pink‟s Accepted movie; (2) to describe the forms of humor expressed by the main characters through maxim flouting in Pink‟s Accepted movie; and (3) to explain the functions of humor expressed by the main characters through maxim flouting in Pink‟s Accepted movie. This research employed the descriptive qualitative method. The data were in the form of utterances i.e. words, clauses, phrases, and sentences. The contexts of the data were dialogues. The source of the data was an American comedy movie entitled Accepted. The data were collected by watching the movie, retrieving the movie transcript, checking the suitability between the movie and the transcript, watching and re-watching the movie to find the relevant data, identifying the dialogues in the movie which are in accordance with the research objectives, and recording the data into the data sheet. Furthermore, the researcher employed some steps in analyzing the data which are: classifying the flouting of maxims of Cooperative Principle employed by the main characters to create humor; analyzing the forms and functions of humor which appear through the flouting of maxims; identifying the errors in the data collection to gain appropriate data; and drawing conclusions for the research questions. Finally, the data findings were triangulated by two linguistics students. There are three findings found in this research. The first finding reveals that the main characters in Accepted movie employ all types of maxim flouting, i.e. flouting of maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of manner and maxim of relation to create humorous utterances. Meanwhile, flouting of quality maxim becomes the most frequent way to create humor. The second finding shows that there are two forms of humor found as the result of maxim flouting done by the main characters in Accepted movie: jokes and spontaneous conversational humor. The third finding depicts that the four functions of humor, i.e social management, decommitment, mediation and defunctionalization, are employed by the main characters in Accepted movie. Social management becomes the most employed function since the dialogues were mostly occured in everyday social interaction. Key words: humor, maxim flouting, main characters, Accepted movie.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords: humor, maxim flouting, main characters, Accepted movie.
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited: 24 Aug 2017 06:30
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2019 14:57
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/52428

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