CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter shows the findings and the discussion of the study. The first part, the present researcher analyzes the speech act in the funny conversation. The
second part, the present researcher analyzes the violation and the flouting of the maxims in the comic. The last part of this chapter analyzes how the non
linguistics contexts contribute in produce humor. From those analyses, the first part is the answer for the first research question; the second part is the answer for
the second question, while the third part is the answer for the third research question. To make it clear, the present researcher provides the table of findings to
show the frequencies of the findings. The data in this chapter are in form of illustration and conversation between the characters and are provided with the
explanation of how the humor is produced. The present researcher provides the illustration because the context can be seen clearly by seeing the illustration.
A. THE SPEECH ACT
This research employs speech acts which is classified by Searle. In Searle’s classification, there are three part of speech acts. Those are locutionary
acts, illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts. Locutionary acts have three parts, namely declarative, interrogative and imperative. Illocutionary acts have five
parts: assertive, directive, commisive, expressive and declaration. Perlocutionary acts have 5 parts. Those parts are to get the hearer know something, to get the
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hearer do something, to get the hearer expect something, to express feeling and to praise.
The data of speech acts were gained by analyzing the sentences based on the function of the sentences. The following table shows the result of the research:
Table 4.1. The occurrence of funny speech act Speech Acts
Parts Frequency
Funny Speech Act
Percentage
Locutionary act
The sentence Declarative
105 18
58,1 Interrogative
36 8
25,8 Imperative
45 5
16,1 TOTAL
186 31
100
Illocutionary act
The action Directive
73 12
37,5 Assertive
64 11
34,4 Expressive
28 5
15,6 Commisive
17 3
9,4 Declaration
4 1
3,1 TOTAL
186 32
100
Perlocutionary Act
The impact Get hearer to do
something 75
12 57,1
Get hearer to know
59 5
23,8 To express
feeling 33
3 14,3
To praise 8
1 4,8
Get hearer to expect
something 11
- TOTAL
186 21
100
Locutionary acts can be simply defined as the act of saying something. The most occurrences of the locutionary act are declarative. It means that most of
the utterances are declarative sentences. There are 105 occurrences of declarative utterance. The utterances are declarative because they tell something to the hearer.
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The second most occurrences are imperative. It occurs 45 times. Imperative sentence is uttered to give order to the hearer. The least occurrences are
interrogative sentence. Interrogative sentence is uttered to ask a question. Interrogative occurs 36 times.
Illocutionary acts refer to what one does in saying something. In this research, the most occurrences of the illocutionary acts are directive utterances.
Directive utterances express what the speakers want. There are 73 occurrences of directive utterances. The next most occurrence utterances are assertive. They
occur 64 times. Assertive is uttered to tell what the speakers know or believe. Expressive utterances become the next illocutionary acts which are uttered
most. They occur 28 times. They are uttered to express the speakers’ feeling and hisher attitude about something. The next one is commisive. It is used to express
what the speakers intend. Commisive utterances occur 17 times. The last one is declaration. It comes up 4 times. When uttering a declaration, the speakers have a
special institutional role in a specific context. Perlocutionary act is the effect of an utterance. There are 186 utterances.
From those 186 utterances, 75 of them are used to get the hearer to do something. 59 utterances are used to get the hearer to know something new. The third most
occurrence effect is express feeling. This effect occurs 33 times. The other effects that are to the hearer to expect something and to praise occur 11 times and 8 time
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