A PRAGMATIC STUDY ON ENGLISH JOKES ABOUT MARRIAGE IN INTERNET
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfilment
for Requirements the Bachelor Degree
of Education in English Department
by
AHMAD ROFIK A320070331
SCHOOL OF TACHER TRAINING EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
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APPROVAL
A PRAGMATIC STUDY ON ENGLISH JOKES ABOUT MARRIAGE IN INTERNET
RESEARCH PAPER
by
AHMAD ROFIK A320070331
Approved by Consultants
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ACCEPTANCE
PRAGMATIC STUDY ON ENGLISH JOKES ABOUT MARRIAGE IN INTERNET
Accepted by the Board of Examiners School of the Teacher Training and Education
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta On July 27, 2012
iv MOTTO
Say: Are those equal, those who know and those who don not know?
- 18:44 -
This worldly life resembles a passageway, and the Hereafter resembles the
homeland, and indeed the wishes of pious men are directed toward the homelands.
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DEDICATION
This research paper is dedicated especially to:
1. My lovely parents; father and mother, for everything which have been given to m. May Allah changes it for you, her and hereafter.
2. My lovely wife, Fitri Nur Sholaikah, for a cup of coffee to make my fresh day, for a life through you Allah Fills in my hearth.
3. My siblings, sister and brother, those I pray Allah to keep them save always.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and Merciful. The writer would like to thank to Allah SWT, because of this mercies and blessing he can finish writing his research entitled “Pragmatic Study on English Jokes about Marriage in Internet”.
In conducting this research, the writer gets some helps from many people. On this occasion, the writer would like to express his great gratitude and appreciation to: 1. Drs. H. Sofyan Anif, M. Si. as the Dean of School of Teacher Training and
Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, 2. Titis Setyabudi, M.Hum. as the Chief of English Department,
3. Dra. Siti Zuhriyah, M.Hum. as the first consultant who has patiently, sincerely, and wisely to give advice and guidance to him from the beginning up to the completion of this research paper,
4. Sigit Haryanto, M. Hum. as the second consultant who has patiently and kindly given additional idea, advice, correction, help and guidance to him from the beginning up to the completion of this research paper,
5. All the lecturers at English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta for the useful knowledge and wisdom,
6. His beloved parents and wife who always patiently pray and support the writer, 7. His brothers and sisters who always support him however they are separated by
distance,
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9. All of the brothers and sisters in Islamic discussion forum who have support and pray him luck.
The writer realizes that this research paper is still far from being perfect, so all suggestions and positive criticisms to make this research paper better are welcome happily.
Surakarta, 27 July 2012
viii TESTIMONY
In this opportunity, I state that there is no proposed work before in this research to get bachelor degree in a certain University and as long as I know, there is also no work or idea that have ever been written or published by other people, except referred written in this research paper and mentioned in the bibliography.
If it is proved there will be something wrong in my statement above in the future, I will wholly be responsible.
Surakarta, July 2012
ix SUMMARY
AHMAD ROFIK. A320070331. A PRAGMATIC STUDY ON ENGLISH
JOKES ABOUT MARRIAGE IN INTERNET. Research Papper.
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. 2012.
This study is a pragmatic study. The objectives of this study are: (1) to describe the intentions of the jokes on marriage in internet, (2) to find the implicatures of the jokes on marriage in internet, and (3) to find the violation on Grice’s maxims in humor about marriage in internet.
This research is a descriptive qualitative study. The object of this research is English jokes about marriage in internet. The data used are written jokes. The source of this data is taken from http://www.ahajokes.com. The writer used documentation method in collecting data. To find the speaker intentions the writer used speech act theory. In finding the Grice’s maxim violation the writer used Cooperative Principles Theory. And in finding the implicatures he used the theory of context of speech and implicatures.
This study shows four results. 1) The representative speech act are applied to express speaker intentions as (1) expressing feeling, (2) informing, (3) alluding, (4) suggesting, (5) insulting, (6) accusing, and (7) classifying. The directive speech act are applied to express the intention of (1) commanding, (2) requesting, (3) responding, (4) claiming, (5) teasing, (6) suggesting, and (7) asking. The commissive speech act are used to express the intention of (1) asking and (2) informing. 2) There are two types of implicature shown in the data; they are (1) conversational implicature and (2) scalar implicature. The conversational implicatures are mostly used while the scalar implicatures are presentend in two data, 19 and 28. 3) The Grice’s maxim violation occurs in four maxims; they are (1) Quality maxim, which its violation occurs when the speaker lacks evidence and gives untrue information to the hearer. (2) Quantity maxim which is violated by giving less or more information than needed. (3) Manner maxim which its violation rises in humor text if the speaker let his/ her utterance ambiguous and (4) Relation maxims which is violated by making the speaker’s utterance irrelevant to the topic of speaking.
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F. Research Paper Organization ... 6
CHAPTER II UNDERLYING THEORY ... 8
A. Pragmatics ... 8
1. Notion of Pragmatics ... 8
2. Some issues in pragmatics ... 9
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b. Spech act ... 10
c. Implicature ... 15
d. Cooprative Principles ... 17
e. Context of Spech ... 19
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION ... 25
A. Data Analysis... 25
B. Discussion of The Finding... 59
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 65
A. Conclusion ... 65
B. Suggestion ... 66 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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