CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This research only analyzes those which have the same characteristics with the theory of humor and in the relation to the theory of maxims by Grice. Therefore
in this chapter, the classified data will be analyzed to discover the findings concerning the statement of the problems.
This chapter will be divided into two sub chapters. The first will be the analysis of how maxims violated viz. flouted, violated, infringed, and suspended
in the humorous conversation and the second will discuss the analytic construct of the humorous effects resulting from the violation in the references of incongruity
theory and the GTVH.
A. Non-Observance Maxims of CP in Humorous Conversations Taken from
Sitcom How I Met Your Mother Season 2
Before diving into an in-depth analysis on humor elicited from the violation maxims, the researcher discovered types of the non-observance maxims employed
in the humorous conversations explicitly flouting, violation, infringing, and suspending. From a hundred-twenty-two 122 excerpts, the findings were
discovered to have: a hundred-nine 109 cases in which the characters did not observed one of four maxims and another thirteen 13 in the point of multiple
violations flouting, violating, suspending in How I Met Your Mother season 2. Those excerpts were found in 22 episodes of season 2, casted by five main
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41 characters. The distribution of those types of maxims are described in the following
chart:
In the chart above, each of clusters described the maxims of CP which were violated by the way of non-observance maxims. In the clusters, violating maxim of
quality was the most frequent above all and infringing maxim of quality was the least, occurred in humorous conversations. As it appeared in the chart, all maxims
were violated. However, only four of five types of non-observance maxims employed in humorous conversations Viz. flouting, violation, infringing, and
suspending. In this section, the researcher discussed and analyzed the violated maxims
discovered from the episodes of How I Met Your Mother season 2 in accordance with the non-observance maxims of CP and the theory of basic structure within
conversations. Each of excerpts was exclusively presented based on its category of non-observance: flouting maxim, violating maxim, infringing maxim and
suspending maxim.
6 27
11 10
15
4 1
2 2
4
5 10
15 20
25 30
Quality Quantity
Relevance Manner
Multiple
4.1 Chart of distribution of violation maxims based on the non- observance maxims types
Flouting Violating
Infringing Suspending
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