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Note: QL: Quality
QN: Quantity RL: Relevance
MN: Manner
5. Analyzing Non-observance Maxims in the Connection with the GTVH and
Incongruity theory
This step was used to answer the second research problem, which how the violation maxims took place to elicit humor. After all the dialogues, which
consisted of breaking maxims in the verbal humor, were inspected the six elements of knowledge resources contained in humorous conversation. Types of maxims
used to create humorous effects were analyzed Viz. quantity, quality, relevance, and manner.
6. Drawing Conclusions
The last stage of the steps, which after the steps of segmenting, categorizing, data gathering, analyzing the humorous conversations, and finding the results, the
conclusions were drawn. The conclusions sum up how the non-observance maxims were applied and how the violation maxims created humorous effects in sitcom
How I Met Your Mother season 2.
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This research only analyzes those which have the same characteristics with the theory of humor and in the relation to the theory of maxims by Grice. Therefore
in this chapter, the classified data will be analyzed to discover the findings concerning the statement of the problems.
This chapter will be divided into two sub chapters. The first will be the analysis of how maxims violated viz. flouted, violated, infringed, and suspended
in the humorous conversation and the second will discuss the analytic construct of the humorous effects resulting from the violation in the references of incongruity
theory and the GTVH.
A. Non-Observance Maxims of CP in Humorous Conversations Taken from
Sitcom How I Met Your Mother Season 2
Before diving into an in-depth analysis on humor elicited from the violation maxims, the researcher discovered types of the non-observance maxims employed
in the humorous conversations explicitly flouting, violation, infringing, and suspending. From a hundred-twenty-two 122 excerpts, the findings were
discovered to have: a hundred-nine 109 cases in which the characters did not observed one of four maxims and another thirteen 13 in the point of multiple
violations flouting, violating, suspending in How I Met Your Mother season 2. Those excerpts were found in 22 episodes of season 2, casted by five main
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