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Table 3.5. The Hearer’s Response of Sarcastic Utterances Based on Purposes
No Purpose of sarcasm
The Hearer‟s Response 4.
Persuasive Aspects a. Accepts the truth
b. Agrees with the issues c. Knows the fault and corrects it.
d. Gives sarcastic utterance back
6. Hearer’s Response of Sarcastic Utterances as Retract Ability
Sarcastic utterances as the purpose of retract ability lets someone states something and expresses its opposite at the same time. The speaker can avoid any
responsibility for the falseness in the utterance. The example below shows how are the responses from the hearer of sarcastic utterance used as a retract ability.
The utterance 9 found in the episode 1 of the first season when the diner is closed and Max is going to count the tips.
Situation 9
Max : We split the tips. Give me yours.
Caroline : giving 2
Max : You did better than I thought you would.
The presupposition of the utterance “give me yours” is that Max believes Caroline gets the tips from the customer. It is indeed true that Caroline has the
tips, but the amount of money is not what Max really expects. After Caroline gives her tips that she gets, Max tends to gives her sarcastic utterance rather than
insult her with aggressive manner. From the utterance
“You did better than I thought you would” Max does not really gives his literal meaning in her utterance. What Caroline did for the tip
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is not better at all since she just earns two dollars while Max has more than Caroline. In other words, the sarcastic utterance in this situation allows the
speaker not to take responsibility of what she just said because what is stated is the opposite from what the realty is which consider as retract ability. As the
response from the sarcastic utterance, Caroline prefer to give her smile since she knows her fault to not get the tips as much as she should get.
Situation 26 Max
: Nice, Han. Shes upset again. Happy?
Han : Sorry, I thought we were playing some kind of hiding game.
The context of the situation above is at the diner when Sophie brings the auction catalog of Caroline‟s family. As her best friend, Max knows that Caroline
still sensitive to things which related to her old life, it is why she asks the catalog from Sophie and hides it behind her back when Caroline suddenly comes and
talks to Sophie. Han, who does not know what Max tries to do, innocently asks her about
what is the thing behind her back. Han‟s question makes Caroline who is in front of M
ax, curious and tries to look at Max‟s back and when Max tries to avoid Caroline, the catalog is snatched by Han which stand behind Max. When Caroline
sees the catalog on the floor, she recognizes it easily and is angry because the magazine is the thing that she has been avoiding from for several days. When Han
knows actually what the catalog is and why Max tries to hide it, he apologizes for his thinking that it is a hiding game.
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Table 3.6. The Hearer’s Response of Sarcastic Utterances Based on Purposes
No Purpose of sarcasm
The Hearer‟s Response 6.
Retract Ability a. Smiles
b. Asks for apologize PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
This closing chapter provides the analysis and the findings of this study. First, the findings of the first problem in this study, which is about the purposes of
sarcasm in utterances found in the TV series, are presented. The second part is to present the
variousity from the hearer’s responses in responding the sarcastic utterances given by the speaker.
In order to classify the purposes, sarcastic utterances are analyzed. There are 70 sarcastic utterances found in Two Broke Girls TV Series Episodes 1 Season
1 to Season 5. After being analyzed, there are 5 utterances as the purpose of group affiliation, 24 utterances as the use of sophistication, 16 utterances for evaluation,
14 utterances as a tool for politeness, 9 utterances as persuasive aspect and 2 utterances for the retract ability purpose. From the collected data, it can be
concluded that in Two Broke Girls TV series sarcasm is commonly used by the characters as the purpose for sophistication. From the context in the conversation,
the speaker often uses sarcasm to express their emotion and as means of humor. For the second problem formulation of this study, the writer concludes
that most of the hearer can understand the purpose of sarcastic utterances given. In the conversation, both of the speaker and the hearer understands what the meaning
implies behind the sarcasm. As the most commonly used is sarcasm as sophistication, the response that is significant is by gives smiles or laughs if it is a
humor, or apologizes if it shows the speaker’s level of emotion.
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