Infringing of The Maxims as Humor in Mind Your Language: Season 1
Author(s): Adhitya Darmawan, Djatmika Djatmika, Agus Hari Wibowo
Institution: Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
Category: Articles, IJMMU, Language
Abstract: This research focuses on how infringing of the maxims becomes the humor construction in the sitcom Mind Your Language: Season 1. Briefly, this research has two aims. The first aim is to find what types of infringing of the maxims whereas the second aim is to find the type of humor created by infringing of the maxims in Mind Your Language: Season 1. In order to do that, this research uses pragmatics approach to find the types of infringing as well as the types of humor. The humor is divided into two types namely irony and pun. This research is considered as descriptive qualitative research for the context cannot be taken away from the data. The data analysis technique of this research is ethnographic methods as what Spradley in Santosa (2021) states. The analysis starts from domain, taxonomy, componential, and cutural theme analysis. The results show that there are 33 data in total. For the infringing, there are 27 data whereas cognitive impairment only appears 6 times. As for the humor, 19 data belong to pun while 14 data belong to irony. This research concludes that Mind Your Language: Season 1 constructs its humor with asking-answering incorrectly but not intentionally because the humor is basically constructed with infringing, both and pun.
Topics: Infringing of The Maxims; Humor; Pragmatics
Article can be downloaded here >> https://ijmmu.com/index.php/ijmmu/article/view/6269
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