him. Marshall represses his emotion in his mind. When Marshall is in a fight with Lily, his repressed feelings are triggered and he dispels it to Lily. Apparently, the
moment Marshall dispels his feelings during the fight is the moment which triggers laughter to occur.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
This part covers the analysis and the findings of this study. First, the findings of the first problem of this study, which is about the types of violations
and floutings of conversational maxims found in the situation comedy, are presented. The second part of this study presents how the violations and the
floutings of the conversational maxims create humorous situations in the situation comedy.
Humorous utterances are analyzed in order to answer the first problem of this study. After the data are analyzed, there are nineteen violations and twenty
two floutings of conversational maxims are found. These violations and floutings done by the characters are the results of not obeying the Cooperative Principle and
its conversational maxims. Each violation and each flouting belongs to a certain type of conversational maxims. The categorization of the types of the violations
and floutings of conversational maxims can be seen in data findings Table 1 which can be found on page 47 and Table 2 which can be found on page 61 of
this study. The first table of the data findings shows the types of the violations of
conversational maxims found in the situation comedy. There are fourteen violations of maxim of Quantity, one violation of maxim of Quality, two
violations of maxim of Relation, and two violations of maxim of Manner. The
violations are created because the characters in the situation comedy intentionally mislead and deceive the interlocutors by generating misleading implicatures in a
conversation. The second table of the data findings previously shows the types of the
floutings of conversational maxims found in the situation comedy. There are two floutings of maxim of Quantity, one flouting of maxim of Quality, six floutings of
maxim of Relation, and thirteen floutings of maxim of Manner. Different from violations of conversational maxim, these floutings of conversational maxims are
created because the characters in the situation comedy do not intentionally mislead and deceive the interlocutors. They expect the interlocutors to be able to
look for the meaning different from, or in addition to, the expressed meaning. The speakers assume that the hearers are able to infer the implied meaning of what is
said. From both tables of the data findings, it can be concluded that the
characters in the situation comedy entitled How I Met Your Mother have violated and flouted all types of conversational maxims.
For the second problem of this study, the writer concludes that the humorous situations are created by the violations and the floutings of
conversational maxims done by the characters in the situation comedy. From the analysis, there are three different ways how the humorous situations are created.
First, the humorous situations are created because some of the violations and the floutings of conversational maxims contain incongruent idea between people’s
expectation and what actually occurs in the conversation between the
