40 explains that a speaker is said to violate a maxim when he delivers
Wu and Chen aims to explore how the characters in the situation comedy create humor by violating Grice‟s Cooperative Principle as their humor strategies. On
the other hand, the present study aims to explore how the characters in the situation comedy create humorous situations by not only violating but also
flouting Grice‟s Cooperative Principle as their humor strategies. Thus, the present study applies humor theory on both of the violations and the floutings of
conversational maxims done by the characters in order to explore how the humorous situations are built in the situation comedy.
The second study is “An Analysis of Humor Types and Grice‟s Maxim in the Situation Comedy Friends Episode of “The One that Could Have Been” a
Pragmatic Approach by Sri Retno Palupi. The aims of this study are, first, to find out the types of humor which appear in this episode, and second, to define
whether those humors obey or disobey Grice‟s conversational maxims as the standard conversational norms. This study uses pragmatic approach to analyze the
problem formulations. The data are all the humor utterances which are able to create laughter found in Friends
comedy series in the episode of “The One with That Could Have Been
”. To analyze the types of the humor, the data are classified by applying humor theory by Anthony L. Audrieth‟s, and further, they are
analyzed by Grice‟s conversational maxims theory. The result of this study reveals that there are eight types of humor which are found in that episode, which
are, banter, blunder, chain, Freudian Slip, irony, mistaken identity, relapse, and repartee. Hence, related to the maxims theory, it is found that the humors in that
episode of situation comedy, which appear in every utterance, fail to obey at least one of the conversational maxims.
Related to Palupi‟s study, the present study‟s aim is also to examine humorous situations in a situation comedy. The present study is conducted in
order to analyze how the humorous situations are created by violations and floutings of conversational maxims done by the characters. In here, the result from
humor analysis in Palupi‟s study contributes evidence that humorous situations which appear in every utterance in the situation comedy are the results of not
obeying at least one of conversational maxims of Grice‟s Cooperative Principles. Besides the similarity and the contribution, differences are also found
between Palupi‟s study and the present study. First, on one hand, Palupi‟s study does not stop in analyzing humor in the situation comedy. It goes further in
finding out the types of humor found in the data source. On the other hand, the present study fo
cuses on the contribution of conversational maxims of Grice‟s Cooperative Principle in creating humorous situations in How I Met Your Mother
season 2, episode 1 to 5. This present study examines more closely how violating and flouting a conversational maxim of Cooperative Principle can create
humorous situations in the situation comedy. It does not go further in analyzing the types of humor. Thus, theory of humor types is not applied in the present
study like it is applied in Palupi‟s study in order to analyze the data. Second, the
data from both of Palupi‟s study and the present study are not from the same data source. While Palupi‟s data are obtained from Friends: The One with That Could
Have Been, the data of the present study are obtained from How I Met Your Mother, season 2, episodes 1 to 5.