misunderstanding, and finally elicit the laughter from the audiences Chiaro, 1992: 43-44.
In this thesis, the writer analyses the violations of conversational maxims through TV-seriesThe Thin Blue Line Season 1 Episode 3: Honey Trap. The
maxims of cooperative principle will be used to explain the kinds of violations happen in this film. The Thin Blue line Season 1 is a TV-series made in England
in 1995. This film is about the life of police officers in Glasforth. In this film, the main actor “Rowan Atkinson” as an arrogance Inspector Fowler, has to face his
weird and clumsy officers in his daily life. This film is divided in 6 series and each series takes an hour. The writer chooses this TV-series because most of
humouroccurred by violatio n of Grice’s cooperative principles during the
conversation Chiaro, 1992: 44. Here, the writer tries to reveal how the manipulation of Grice’s cooperative principles can create the humorous situation
and finally provoke people’s laughter. In this TV-series, the characters utilize maxims in their conversation in
oder to make the film funny and the people laugh. This thesis is interesting to be analysed because it can help the readers to understand deeper humorous situation
occured in this TV-series. Besides, the readers can understand how the violations of conversational maxims can create the humour in this TV-series.
A. Problem Formulation
1. What kinds of violations of conversational maxims of Cooperative Principle
which cause humourin The Thin Blue Line Season 1 Episode 3: Honey Trap?
2. How the violations of conversational maximsof Cooperative Principle create
thehumorous situation in The Thin Blue Line Season 1 Episode 3: Honey Trap
?
B. Objective of the Study
In this thesis, the writer focuses on the readers can understandkinds ofviolations ofconversational maxims of Cooperative Principleswhich cause
humour and how these violations create the humorous situation inThe Thin Blue Line
Season 1 Episode 3: Honey Trap. There are two objectives study. The first is to find out the kinds of violation which cause humour during the conversationin
that TV-series. Here,the conversational maxims of cooperative principle are used to explain the kinds of violation in the conversation between the speakers.
According to Grice, there are four maxims: the quantity maxim, the quality maxim, the relation maxim, the manner maxim. They are explained further in the
chapter 2.The second, the writer finds out how the violationsin this comedy TV- seriesThe Thin Blue Line Season 1 in creating the humorous situation.
C. Definition terms
In this part, several terms which are used in the study are explained. It is necessary to define them since they are the key words of the research.
The terms are as follows: 1.
Conversation Conversation is the linguistic interaction between two or more people as co-
ordinated and collaborative social action Verschueren, 1998: 50. Conversation is used forany form of spoken discourse involving more than one
speaker in formal or informal setting. 2.
Cooperative Principles According to Fromkin and Rodman, the cooperative principlesare a must that
the speaker’s contribution to the discourse should be as informative as is required-neither more or less Fromkin and Rodman, 2003: 225. From this
definition, it explains that the cooperative principles are the rules for conversation in which arrange our understanding of how language is used in
particular situations to convey a message. The rules that arrange the conversation are called maxims. Grice said that maxims are a certain set of
conversational rules which governs the ordinary conversations Richards and Schmidt, 1984: 45. These rules arrange how the speakers behave in the
conversation to avoid the violation at a given point in a conversation. There are four maxims proposed.
3. The humor
In The New Encyclopedia Britannica, humour is the only form of communication in which a stimulus on a high level of complexity produces a
stereotyped, predictable response on the physiological reflex level Benton
ed., 1983: 7. This form communication stimulates the ridiculous things and then responds the laughter reflex for the people.
4. Violation of conversational maxims
According to J. Thomas in Meaning in Interaction in Cutting, 2002: 40,a speaker can be said to ‘violate’ a maxim when they know that the hearer will
not know the truth and will only understand the surface meaning of the words. They intentionally generate a misleading implicature; maxim violation is
unostentatiously, quite deceiving. In the violation, the speaker gives insufficient, insincere, and ambiguous information to the hearer and this thing
causes the hearer gets the wrong information in the conversation.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
