37 1975 with an assistance of basic structure of conversation theory in order to sort
the data into some categories in which four maxims as the categories. Then, the proceeding coded data were clustered into proper kinds of non-observance maxim
and collected into partitions. At this stream, the researcher noted the regularities, patterns and explanation transpired from the humorous conversation in order to
solve the research problems. b.
Data display After reduction of data, the clustered data in this research was displayed into
tables see appendices. It was aimed to assemble the information needed to analyze the analytic construct of humor resulting from conversations and draw the
conclusions. c.
Conclusion drawing In this research, the vague conclusion was prefigured during the analysis.
However, the final conclusion was verified from the elaboration of discussion after it was over. This research sum up the violation viz. flouting, violating, infringing,
suspending of maxims occurred in humorous conversation and the general analytic construct of humor which was increasingly grounded and explicit.
F. Research Procedures
The research took some ordered steps in conducting the research. The steps were as follow:
1. The Steps of Segmenting the Transcription Based on Its Speech Events.
By using the theory of basic structure of conversation and the cooperative principle, the maxims used in conversation which reflected humorous effects were
38 identified. The identification was seen when ‘any turns which are breaking one or
more of the Gricean maxims’ Brumark, 2004:13.
2. Classifying the Conversations
After identifying the existence of maxim, the conversations which indicated to have humorous effects were classified and analyzed further. The conversations,
which violated the maxims of cooperative principles were coded such as
[S02EP01QLVL1], meaning the excerpt was taken from the episode 01 which
indicated to violate maxim quality.
3. The Steps of Categorizing the Violation Maxims
The data were organized by placing each conversation into its category in the references with four 4 kinds of non-observance maxims, it might belong to
category of flouting, violating, infringing or suspending.
4. The Steps of Dividing the Excerpts
After collecting the data, the researcher put the humorous conversations consisting of violation maxims into tables. The table were preceded by the text of
conversations, so that the context of humor could be seen. These texts were called as excerpts. The following table were analyzed to answer the first research problem
which was what kinds of non-observance maxims employed in humorous conversations.
2.1 Non-observance of maxims distribution based on types of maxims No. Code
Excerpt Maxims
Indication QL QN RL MN
