Analysis on a Situation which Infringes Maxims

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B. Contributions of Non-observance Maxims in Creating Humorous Effects

in Sitcom How I Met Your Mother Season 2. After analyzing the selected data for each. The result would be discussed in the connection with the humor mechanism. The research focused on the language humor, because the process of social activities mostly takes place through conversation, thus humor likely comes out from people’s daily language communication. The second layer discussion of research discusses how those five of failing maxims contribute in creating humorous effect. The talk of the non-observance of four maxims is the same whether these maxims located in flouting or other non- observance. The difference is in the kind of non-observance. By using the 6 parameters of GTVH, current layer of discussion analyze how creation humorous effects were contributable to violation viz. flouting, violating of maxims. The discussion was deductively organized from the view of maxim as the kinds of non- observance maxims converge at the same target maxims.

1. Maxim of Quality

The findings showed, there were only three of five kinds of non-observance maxims which exploited maxims of quality in order to create humorous effects: flouting, violating, and infringing.

a. Flouting

Targeting maxim quality by implementing this kind of non-observances resulted to be contributable in creating humorous effects. The following excerpt exemplified the contribution: 73 EXCERPT S02E11QLFL6 SI At Lily’s apartment, Barney was smoking facing over the opened window while he was sick and it was winter. NA Conversation 1 Robin: Barney. What the hell are you doing? Get in here, it’s freezing outside. Are you insane? 2 Barney: Hey, blame Lily and her oppressive ‘no cigars in the apartment rule.’ God, it’s like Marshall’s marrying the Taliban. SO Flouting maxim of quality LM Exaggeration TA Lily’s ‘No Cigar’s rule’ LA Using word ‘Taliban’ As appeared in the excerpt S02E11QLFL6, Barney’s utterance was the punchline where the humor appeared. The humor arouse within a narrative strategy NA: conversation. The conversation was situated SI when Robin cared about Barney’s condition by asking him to get inside. As Barney threw the guilt on Lily’s ‘No cigar’ rule in return TA, his utterance constituted flouting maxim of quality in form of exaggeration by using word LA ‘Taliban’. Thus, the flouted maxim of quality, in terms of GTVH characterized as the Script Opposition SO as was explained by Attardo 1994. Barney’s utterance “God, it’s like Marshall’s marrying the Taliban.” was seen as an incongruity in that script opposition, since his utterance was fictitious that somebody literally married to an Islamic organization “Taliban”. Equipped with above resource knowledge, the humorous effects was expected to be generated within the logical mechanism LM. The logical mechanism LM started to run as the exaggeration occurred in the conversation. In other words, the exaggeration represented impossibility which in terms of incongruity theory was incongruous. The occurrence of the incongruous situation logically violated the audiences’ normal viewpoint of responses of certain kinds of statement in such situation. Thus, the violation flouting maxim of quality was contributable to create humorous effect.