Chief Gaius Veriambitius Gluteus Maximus

49 analyzing the speech acts and the cooperative principle in the comic Asterix at the Olympic Games is very important to reveal how the humor is produced. It is stated by Hamlyn 1988: 806 that humor is interpreted as a violation of principles of communication suggested by pragmatic principles. It is also important to know the non linguistic aspect of the comic which help producing the humor. It is as Hamlyn 1988: 806 said that humor will not sound funny or laughable if it is not understandable, emerging antipathy attitude and breaking someone’s feelings and not meeting the appropriate time, place and situations. Further, this study comes up to employ the speech act theories suggested by Austin and Searle to analyze the types of speech acts employed in the funny conversation in the comic Asterix at the Olympic Games. This research employs Austin’s theory to describe the locutionary, illocutionary and the perlocutionary acts. Locutionary act is an act of producing a recognizable grammatical utterance in the language. It is the basis of utterance that conveys meaningful linguistic expression. The illocutionary act of an utterance sometimes is different from what the speaker literally says. Perlocutionary act is what one does by saying something. It is performed with the intention of producing further effect. In addition, this research also employs cooperative principle theory suggested by Grice. The theory is used to find out the violated maxims which produce humor in the comic. There are four observed maxims that are maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of manner and maxim or relation. This research also tries to find out the non linguistic aspects which help producing the humor. In this research, the present researcher employs the theory PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 50 form Wijana 2003: 8 which states that verbal cartoon is the combination of words and pictures in which the humorous idea or joke is put beyond the form of conversational text and the drawing. The conversational text shows the speech uttered and the drawing shows the speaker, hearer, the word spoken of and spatiotemporal setting related to where and when the speech is uttered. The present researcher then takes illustration and expression as the representative of non linguistics aspects which help producing the humor in the comic. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI