CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Library Research
This analysis uses qualitative approach. The writer describes all the participants’ utterances in humorous text in Reader’s Digest. The writer uses
descriptive research method to describe the contexts and how the text interprets the humor in the joke conversation in Reader’s Digest. After that, the writer
analyzes all sentences and describes what made those conversations become humorous.
3.2 Data Collecting Method
In collecting the data, the writer discusses three things. First, the writer explains the data and source of data. Second, the writer describes the instrument
that is used in this research. The last thing that is discussed by the writer is method of data collection.
The writer chooses the joke in humorous text in Reader’s Digest in the form of dialogue only, the source data are collected from Reader’s Digest edition
on August 2010, September 2010, October 2010, November 2010, and December 2010. The data are utterances in fifteen jokes that contained humorous
effect. The writer studies the conversations between the participants that related to pragmatic and humor.
As it is a qualitative research, the writer becomes the human instrument to solve the problem. The writer analyzes the utterances to find the answers of
the research questions by using her knowledge. The writer uses the techniques of document analysis to collect the data.
These are steps in collecting the data. 1.
Making a clipping of jokes from four months August 2010, September, October, November, and December 2010 of the humorous text in
Reader’s Digest magazine. 2.
Selecting jokes only in the form of dialogue to be analyzed. 3.
Giving the coding for those humors based on the edition of the magazine. 4.
And the last step is identifying the utterances of the participants that created humor
3.3 Data Analysis Method
After collecting the data, the writer analyzes the data. In analyzing the data, the writer does several steps. First, describes the context of each
conversation in humorous text in Reader’s Digest by pragmatic theory. Second, describes how the humor is interpreted in the text and what make those
conversations become humorous. Finally, put the answers in the data findings and analysis to ease the reader in reading the findings.
CHAPTER IV PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF HUMOROUS TEXT IN READER’S DIGEST