Pragmatic deals with interpretation of speaker and contextual meaning , so
through pragmatic analysis; the speakers suppose the hearer to recognize the meaning of the sentence they speak to act accordingly. There are
misinterpretations in the conversation between the speaker and the hearer that caused humor and the misinterpretations that happen in conversation are often
caused by different interpretation.
1.2 Problems of the Analysis
The problems that can be analyzed as the baseline data of this study can be stated as:
1. What are the contexts of the conversation in humorous text in Reader’s
Digest? 2.
How is the humor interpreted in the text?
1.3 Objectives of the Analysis
Derived from the problems of the analysis above, the writer wants to:
1. Find out the contexts of the conversation in humorous text in Reader’s
Digest. 2.
Find out how the humor is interpreted in the text.
1.4 Significances of the Analysis
The writer hopes that the result of this analysis can help out the readers to be familiar with pragmatic analysis of humors and know what makes those
conversations become humors.
1.5 Scope of the Analysis
The scope analysis of this thesis is about pragmatic analysis of humorous
text in Reader’s Digest. The analysis is based on pragmatic view. This analysis is limited to the analysis of humorous text in Reader’s Digest. The analysis focuses
on humors that are in the form of dialogues only and on the utterances that produce humor. The jokes are taken from Reader’s Digest edition on August
2010, September 2010, October 2010, November 2010, and December 2010.
1.6 Method of the Analysis
In the process of doing this thesis, the writer has applied the library research method. The data are collected from Reader’s Digest edition on August
2010, September 2010, October 2010, November 2010, and December 2010. This analysis is focused on speech act in the humor in magazine mention above.
The writer takes randomly jokes for every edition to be analyzed. In finishing this analysis, the writer collects the support data by generally through the library
research like reading and selecting certain textbook. These are certainly related to the pragmatic theory and theory of humor.
1.7 Review of Related Literature
There are some previous theses which are related to pragmatic and humor. Hidayati 2009 in her thesis “Analisis Pragmatik Humor Nasruddin
Hoja” concludes that speech act in Nasruddin Hoja’s humor consists of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary, then applying and broking Maxim
are made in order to raise the smile and laugh of the reader. Hidayati’s thesis supports the writer’s analysis because both of them want to find the locutionary,
illocutionary, and perlocutionary of their own objects in their analysis. Pamela 2005 in her thesis “The Study of Speech Acts for Humorous
Purposes in Tante Tutik Drama Comedy TV Series” concludes that humor usually came up because there was misunderstanding between the speaker and the
listener, and also because the listener can not catch what the intended meaning of the speaker was, and there were only three types of illocutionary act found in
Pamela’s research; representative, expressive, and directive. Pamela’s analysis has given contributions to the writer’s analysis that are about factors that raising the
humors; there was misunderstanding between the speaker and the listener, the listener cannot catch what the intended meaning of the speaker was.
Ramadhani 2005 in her thesis “The Analysis of Speech Act in The Novel of Enyd Blyton’s Three Cheers Secret Seven” concludes that speech acts
uttered by the speaker and the hearer found in the novel were classify into speech acts classification based on relation of the words and the world according to the
Searle’s theory, and the utterances are contain the implicit meaning. The writer also uses Searle’s theory of speech act.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
