Sarcasm Analysis Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour Found in BBC Radio Drama

63 linguistically using General Theory of Verbal Humour proposed by Attardo 1994 by employing the six Knowledge Resources KRs. They are, presented in hierarchical order, Script Opposition SO, Logical Mechanism LM, Situation SI, Target TA, Narrative Strategy NS, and Language LA. Each of these Knowledge Resources was utilized to examine every element that constituted the verbal humour. The analysis was conducted by investigating every element that constitutes the verbal humour. It was done in hierarchical way, following the hierarchical order of the six Knowledge Resources KRs. It started by examining the verbal humour using the most complex parameters, the Script Opposition SO and the Logical Mechanism LM. Then, the analysis was continued by utilizing the next four KRs sequentially: The SI, TA, NS, and LA. It was done this way in order to closely examine the element of the humour from the core element first until the way the humour was presented. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 64

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter is to close the research by providing the conclusions and some recommendations related to the study. There are two parts in this chapter, namely conclusions and recommendations. The first part is to conclude the findings and discussion which have been presented in the previous chapter related to both the research questions. The second part is to provide some suggestions to the readers pertaining to the research.

A. Conclusions

The researcher collected, in total 67 verbal humours in the object of the research, BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. The most frequent verbal humour that appeared within the object of the study was satire that appeared 20 times 29.9 out of 67 verbal humours. The second highest rank of verbal humour appearance was irony 22.4, followed by wit 19.4, sarcasm 16.4, and joke 6.0. Each of the last four categories, pun, riddle, farce, and tall tale, only appeared once throughout the entire episode 1.5. On the other side, the researcher did not find verbal humour within the object of the study that fell into the other three categories: limerick, parody, and anecdote. The analysis of the verbal humour was done successfully by utilizing the six Knowledge Resources KRs of the General Theory of Verbal Humour GTVH: Script Opposition SO, Logical Mechanism LM, Situation SI,