persuade Habib to pretend as a whore to trap the villain. Meanwhile, Dawkins, Fowler’s girlfriend, feels jealous with Habib because she often sees Habib and
Fowler are in Fowler’s room alone. In fact, Fowler is talking about the entrapment operation with Habib.
In this thesis, the writer will observe the speakers’ utterances violating the maxims and creating the humorous situation in this TV-series. Here, the writer
will focus on speakers’ utterances and how they violate Grice’s maxim and finally this violations create the humorous situation comedy and elicit people’s laugh in
the conversation.
A. Approach of the Study
The writer uses a pragmatic approach in this thesis. The pragmatic approach looks the language relation to the contextual background. According to
Cruse, pragmatics concern with two aspects of information conveyed through language: a pragmatics is not encoded by generally accepted convention in the
linguistic forms used, b pragmatics depends on the meanings taken in conjunction with the context in which the forms are used Cruse, 2000: 16. Yule
states that pragmatics is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms Yule, 1996: 4. Both these explanation shows that in
the pragmatic approach, this study to do in this thesis will look how the speakers utters their words or phrases and how they organize their utterance in the
particular context in the conversation in accordance with the non-observance maxims introduced by Grice.
B. Method of the Study
In this thesis, the internet research and library researchare used to gather data and theories. The data are the conversations which are taken from the internet
and transcribed into a film script. Besides, the theories are taken from internet and books.
Here, the writer analyzes speakers’ utterances which violate Grice’s maxims in creating the humorous situation. Then, the writer analyzes how Grice’s
maxims can create the humorous situation in the conversation. The data used in this thesis are the script of The Thin Blue Line Season 1
Episode 3: Honey Trap taken from the internet. The site used is subscene.com. Here, the writer finds some differences between the script and subtitle shown in
the TV-series. These differences are match up with the TV-series. There are four steps how the writer analyzed this thesis. First, the writer
read the script while watching this TV-series more than once in order to understand deeper about the conversation. During this process, the writer found
the differences of the conversation between the subtitle shown in TV-series and the script obtained from the internet. The writer matched up these differences to
the TV-series. Second, since there is no narration in the script of this TV-series, the writer tried to write the narration by herself in order to help the reader to
understand the conversation in this TV-series. Besides, it also helps the writer to answer the problem formulation. Third, the writer found kinds of violations of
conversational maxims of cooperative principle in the conversation. Since the pragmatic approach used in this thesis, the writer needed Grice’s maxim to
analyze the violation occurred. The writer found the violations of conversational
maxims occurred when the speakers do not require their conversational contribution to co-operate in the conversation. In other words, the speakers do not
follow the cooperative principles which arrange the rules how the language is used to convey a message. This theory is also combined with the humour theories
to find the violations of conversational maxims of cooperative principle which caused the humorous situation in the conversation. After identifying the kinds of
violations which cause the humorous situation, the writer encoded them into a table as presented in the appendix. Fourth, both theories of violations and humour
theories were applied to analyze howthe violations of conversational maxims created the humorous situation in the conversation. Here, the writer combined
both these theories to explain more how the violations of conversational maxims of cooperative principle can be used in creating the humorous situation in this TV-
series.
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