MAXIM VIOLATION OF HUMOR
IN
“INDONESIA LAWAK KLUB”
A THESIS
Submitted as the Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
MASRIANISYAM SITORUS
Registration Number 2112220014
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
DECLARATION
I have familiarized myself with the University’s policy on Academic
integrity. Except where appropriately acknowledged, this thesis is my own work, has been expressed in my own words and has not previously been submitted for assessment.
I understand that this paper may be screened electronically or otherwise for plagiarism.
Medan, July 2015 The writer
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Great thanks and praise to the Almighty Allah SWT who has blessed and given the ability to the writer to complete her thesis as the partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Sarjana Sastra at the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and the help of several individuals who always contributed and extended their valuable assistances in the preparation and completion of this thesis. The writer’s special
appreciation goes to: Secretary of English Department, Nora Ronita, S.Pd., S.S., M.Hum., the Head of English Education Program and Syamsul Bahri, S.S., M.Hum., beloved Lecturers in English and Literature Department.
Eis Sri Wahyuni, M.Pd., for the patience, helps in completing the
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Her beloved family, the truly inspiring number one man, her father
Syamsuddin Sitorus, her beloved mother Misnem, her dearest sisters
Nurhayati Sitorus, S.Pd.I., Sri Rahayu Sitorus, S.Pd., Maria Ulpa
Sitorus, S.Sy., Nurul Jannah Sitorus, S.Pd.I., and her dearest brothers
Surya Darma Sitorus., Edi Saputra Sitorus, S.Pd.I., and Donni
Irawan, S.Kom., thank you for the understanding and the big support in
prayer, love, motivation and financial while accomplished this thesis. Her beloved friends in English Literature A and B 2011 especially for her
comrades Martha, Swidanty, Sofa, Juni, Hotmarina, Ika, Christina,
Riandi, Ichwan Choice, and many others that she cannot be mentioned
one by one. Thanks for your love, happiness, and friendship that we have been through together.
Her friends in the Boarding home especially Peni Noferianti and Siska
Ayu Octavera thanks for your love, happiness, and friendship that we
have been through together.
Her best friends, Dahratul, Bunga S R, Muliani, Eli, Dwi, Rika,
Khalida F T, Dinda S R Pane, Khalida Haris and Septia Elisabeth N,
thanks for your support, love and friendship.
The people who direct or indirectly contributed in this study, your
kindness means a lot to her.
Medan, July 2015 The Writer,
ABSTRACT
Sitorus, Masrianisyam. 2015. Maxim Violation of Humor in Indonesia Lawak Klub. A Thesis. English and Literature Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
The study deals with the types of maxims violation in Indonesia Lawak Klub. The objectives of study are to describe the types of violation maxim and to find the reason why the host and the panelists do that maxims violation in Indonesia Lawak Klub. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was derived from Indonesia Lawak Klub program. The data were taken from the utterances among the host and the panelists in selected of three episodes. The instrument of collecting data was documentary sheet. The data were analyzed by using descriptive technique. There were 152 utterances that violated maxims used by the host and the panelists. The results of the analysis showed that all types of maxim were violated; violation of maxim of quantity 56 utterances, violation of maxim of quality 47 utterances, violation of maxim of relation 32 utterances, and violation of maxim of manner 17 utterances. The most dominant type of violation of maxims used by the host and the panelists in Indonesia Lawak Klub is violation of maxim of quantity. The reason why the host and the panelists do that violated maxims because the host and the panelists give too much or too little, untrue, irrelevant, unclear information than is needed, to present the strongest information by adding something unimportant, to entertaining and to giving much lesson for audiences with funny way and to create humor.
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1. Conversational Implicature ... 8
a. Generalized Conversational Implicature ... 9
b. Particularized Conversational Implicature ... 9
2. Cooperative Principle ... 10
a. Violation of Maxim Quantity ... 14
b. Violation of Maxim Quality ... 15
c. Violation of Maxim Relation ... 15
d. Violation of Maxim manner16 6. Humor ... 17
7. Relation Maxim Violation with Humor ... 19
8. Indonesia Lawak Klub ... 19
C. Conceptual Framework………....23
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 25
A. Research Method ... 25
B. Data and Source of Data ... 25
C. Technique for Collecting Data ... 26
D. Research Instrument ... 26
E. Technique for Analyzing Data... 26
CHAPTER IV. DATA ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH FINDINGS ... 28
A. The Data ... 28
B. The Data Analysis ... 28
1. Types of Maxims Violation ... 28
2. The Reasons of Using the Maxims Violation ... 38
C. Research findings ... 39
D. Discussion ... 40
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 41
A. Conclusion ... 41
B. Suggestion ... 41
REFERENCES ... 43
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LIST OF TABLE
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LIST OF APPENDICES
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Appendix A Identification of Violation of Maxims in the Host and the
Panelists’s Utterances Of “Indonesia Lawak Klub ... 45
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study
Generally, the ideal communication can be successfully achieved if the speakers and the hearers have good interaction by cooperating each other. However, there are principles that must be obeyed in order to gain the purpose of interactions. As stated by Grice in Peccei (1999: 27) that all speakers regardless of their cultural background, adhere to a basic principle governing conversation which he termed cooperative principles. Grice then elaborated these principles into four sub-principles called maxims.
Grice in Yule (1996: 37) states that in cooperative Principle, a speaker must obey four maxims. They are maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. The four maxims are basically used for making the information adequate, informative, relevant, and clear. Without using these maxims, the interactions cannot run effectively as the process of transmitting information becomes unclear. However, people sometimes do interaction which is not accordance with the maxims. They do not follow the principles to communicate their ideas for some reasons. In this case, the speakers are said to violate them and even do it to achieving some purposes. This action is called maxims violation.
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maxims actually can increase awkward impression to the hearers. Nevertheless, there are some situations that make the speakers use maxims violation;one of them is in the comedy show. Comedy show is a funny program on television or radio (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/comedy-show). Basically, it is made to humor that can make people laugh. Humor can be funny, happy, or amusing and can be very significant as it can function as another means of communication. In addition, humor is also used to communicate things which cannot be presented in a serious communication and the application of these violated maxims is able to influence the success of humor in comedy show.
In this research, the analysis focused Indonesia LawakKlub as the data source. This comedy show is selected because it is one of the most famous television programs in Indonesia. It is a comedy show in Trans 7 which imitates Indonesia Lawyers Club in TvOne which shows live socio-politics discussion.
This program is set like a discussion forum of some Indonesian comedians and discussing a certain topic that is being a hot and up-to-date issue in Indonesia. It has a comedy genre.
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Indonesia LawakKlub (TV Comedy Show) in the episode of India
LawakKlub(14th January 2015):
CakLontong: justru, yang pertama kali Iklan rokok. Yang kedua, justru di anggap kayak rumah sendiri karena sangking panjangnya, jadiboleh, penonton ngobral ngobrol disana itu gak mengganggu karena sangking lamanya film, dan diambil dalam satu film itu ada jeda iklan, ada satu judul film di India memecahkan rekor dunia.
Denny : apa?
CakLontong: judulnya Diljahe Dulhaniya Le janyenge
In the conversation above, CakLontong gives the explanation that there is a Hindi’s movie that break a record of the world and Denny Chandra responds
with give the question and then CakLontong Answer with the wrong title. Actually the true title is DilwaleDulhaniya Le Jayenge. Instead of telling the true title, CakLontong violates the principles of good interactions. CakLontong violated maxim of Quality. Yet, his answer sounds funny to the audiences and he successfully attracts people to laugh at the humor he creates in the show.
Other exampleIndonesia LawakKlub (TV Comedy Show) in the episode of Mubazir(7th January 2015):
Komeng : Kang Maman beli sisir mubazir gak menurut bapak? (Kang maman has not hair or bald)
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Kang Maman has dandruff. Komeng and Denny violates the principles of good interactions. They violated maxim quality. Because for the reality Kang Maman is bald, cannot use the comb and have not the dandruff. By violated maxims, the panelists successfully attract people to laugh at the humor he creates in the show.
Based on the examples of observation above, by violating the cooperative principles, the panelists speak more or less than needed, ambiguity, unclear and untrue perhaps to create some humors,to show respect, to be honest but it depends on their intentions in speaking. So, the script writers intentionally violate the cooperative principle in order to make humorous effect of the script in Indonesia LawakKlub. This kind of script usually intended for make a comedy show in
television.
There have been some previous researches related on the maxim violation, such as “An Analysis of the Violation of Maxims in MalamMingguMiko Situation Comedy” by Hidayati and Indartiin their journal(2013) their study is to describe types of cooperative principle, violation and the most dominant of maxim violation in MalamMingguMikositcom. Andriani, Hamzah and Ardi in their journal (2013) “Comparison of the maxim violation found in action and drama
movies” the study is focused on comparison maxim violation in two different
genres of movie; it is Charlie’s Angels and The Pacifier. They found that all types of maxims are violated and the most dominant maxim in film “Charlie’s Angels”
is maxim quality while in drama film “The Pacifier” is maxim of quantity.
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violation which occurs in Indonesia LawakKlub show. This television program “Indonesia LawakKlub” is one of the most famous programs in Trans 7 which
has been nominated for Panasonic Gobel Awards 2014 as program of comedy show. Indonesia LawakKlub has some differences from other comedy show. It usually discussed about the hot issues in society in funny way while other comedy shows just present drama comedy.The researcher is interested in studying maxim violation of utterance used by the panelists “Indonesia
LawakKlub” because the researcher wants to know more about the application of
maxim violation, especially in comedy show. Besides, the researcher also find out that Indonesia LawakKlub contains many utterances that violated the maxim and also the researcher assumed that it would violate the maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation and maxim of manner. This is what makes the researcher interested to conduct a study about maxim violation of humor in Indonesia LawakKlub.
B. The Problems of the Study
The problems of the study are formulated as in the following.
1. What types of maxim of violation are used in the utterances in “Indonesia LawakKlub”?
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C. The Objectives of the Study
Related to the problems of the study formulated above, the objectives of the study are:
1) to find out the types of maxim violation used in “Indonesia LawakKlub”. 2) to describe the reason why the host and the panelists do the maxims
violation in “Indonesia LawakKlub”.
D. The Scope of the Study
The scope of the study is limited to the maxim violation in humor utterances among the panelists in the comedy show “Indonesia LawakKlub”. The types of maxims discussed on Grice’s theory are divided into four sub-maxims;
maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation and maxim of manner.
E. The Significance of the Study
The finding of this study is expected to be useful both in theoretically and practically. Theoretically, it can be used to improve the study of maxim violation, especially in Indonesia LawakKlub television program, and the findings of the research will useful to give information to the speakers or hearers about their problems and difficulties in understanding the violation of maxims in their utterances.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
After collecting and analyzing the data, it can be concluded that:
1. All types of maxims violation were uses by the host and the panelists in three selected episodes in Indonesia Lawak Klub with the total number 152 utterances. The total number and percentages of each type are violation of maxim of quantity with the total number 56 utterances, violation of maxim of quality with the total number 47 utterances, violation of maxim of relation with the total number 32 utterances and violation of maxim of manner with the total number 17 utterances. The most dominant type that the host and the panelists use is violation of maxim of quantity.
2. The reason why the host and the panelists do that maxims violated in
the Comedy Show “Indonesia Lawak Klub” is to create humor or joke,
entertaining and giving much lesson for audiences with the funny way.
B. Suggestion
By considering the research finding and conclusions, there are some suggestions which are useful for:
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2. for the students of English Department who want to take the pragmatics study as the tool of the research, especially on cooperative principle, they must understand and learn more about this study. They may take different object so that it will make the research more interesting.
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