Jokes The Types of Verbal Humor in the

33 Thus, the discussion of the movie’s verbal humor went as follows:

1. Jokes

In this verbal humor type, there were 5 subcategories of joke, namely phonological, lexical, surface structure, deep structure, and metalinguistic joke. There are 9 samples of joke found in the movie dialog script, specifically, 5 Jokes, 1 phonological joke, 1 Surface structure jokes, 1 Deep structure jokes, and 1 Metalinguistic joke. The samples are written below, the humorous points written in italic for emphasis: a. Joke There are 5 samples of joke found in the movie dialog. In general, the samples included in this category create unexpected sudden change of things as the source of the incongruity. As stated by Shade 1996, that a joke can be experienced by generating twists. The audiences must be able to resolve the 3 1 31 6 13 1 10 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Anecdote Wit Irony Parody Limerick Satire Riddles Jokes Puns Chart 4.1 Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Verbal Humor Total Number by Types 34 incongruity out of these 5 samples easily since they are placed in the end of the utterances. See the list below: Table 4.1.1 Joke Verbal Humor List No. Minute in the film Dialog 1. 00:39:09 Buck : Alright, Ill help ya. But I got rules. Rule number one: Always listen to Buck. Rule number two: Stay in the middle of the trail. Rule number three: He who has gas, travels at the back of the pack. 2. 00:58:40 Eddie : Whats that sound? Buck : Its the wind. Its speaking to us. Crash : Whats it saying? Buck : I dont know. I dont speak wind. Note: For the complete list of the samples, see appendix B. These two cases illustrate their incongruities by using sudden changes of thing in the end of the remarks. In the first sample, Buck agrees to help the herd to find Sid, but they need to obey his rules. Buck solemnly delivers his rules to the herd, but his last rule is ridiculous by telling them to get to the back of the group if one wants to have gas. The second example has the same humorous structure as the first example. Buck acts as if he knows that the wind is speaking to the herd, but at last he says that he has no idea. b. Phonological Joke The researcher found a verbal humor sample of this type of joke. Shade 1996 defines this category as jokes that are expressed by the use of phonological feature of words. In this sample, the incongruity lies in the pronunciation similarity between the word “whoa” and “woe”. Here is the sample: 35 Table 4.1.2 Phonological Joke Verbal Humor List No. Minute in the film Dialog 1. 00:57:11 Crash Eddie : Whoa . . . Buck : You got it. The plates of woe . Or whatevers left of them. In this situation, the herd arrives in a rocky steep place, which Buck calls it the Plates of Woe. Witnessing the horrendousness of the place, Crash and Eddie are stunned by the place with an exclamation of “whoa”. Buck thinks that Crash and Eddie have already known the place by assenting to them that they have arrived in the Plates of “Woe”. The incongruity of this joke lies in the use of two homophonic words, “whoa” and “woe”. c. Surface Structure Joke For this category, the researcher found a Surface Structure Joke. Surface Structure jokes are represented by the use of surface structure of words 1996. The sample below uses the word “Sloth” to alternatively replace the word “slow”. Here is the sample: Table 4.1.3 Surface Structure Joke Verbal Humor List No. Minute in the film Dialog 1. 00:59:57 Sid : Wait Sloth down In this joke, Sid replaces the word “slow” with “sloth”, changing his utterance becomes “Sloth down”. The replacement adds a meaning to the utterance that Sid also fall down to the ground of stumbling. 36 d. Deep Structure Joke The writer listed a verbal humor categorized into Deep Structure Joke. According to Shade 1996, Deep Structure Jokes employ alternative interpretation of the word phrase used. In this sample, Crash misinterprets the word “Roger” as a person’s name. In fact, Buck understands that Sid has been seen by “ rogering ” that. Below is the dialog snippet expressing the Deep Structure joke: Table 4.1.4 Deep Structure Joke Verbal Humor List No. Minute in the film Dialog 1. 00:65:18 Crash : Look Hes right there. Buck : Roger Eddie : No, Sid. Buck : I know. Roger Crash : How about we get Sid first, and then go back for Roger? Buck : Never Mind e. Metalinguistic Joke There is a single sample of Metalinguistic Joke found in this movie. Shade 1996 writes that this kind of joke values surface structure more than deep structure. As shown below, Buck calls his long name literally rather than calling his real long name. Buck plays his name by shouting it loudly and lengthily to introduce his nickname is long for. Here is the sample: Table 4.1.5 Metalinguistic Joke Verbal Humor List No. Minute in the film Dialog 1. 00:32:09 Buck : The names Buck. Short for Buckminster. Long for Buuuuuh. 37

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