4: 28 PHI MIT
: :
How do you sleep at night? Soundly, knowing youll do the right thing. So how about it,
Phil? You gonna stop this train? Cause these brakes are out. Oh. And I suggest you lose this number.
S4E10Sc11 The dialogue above happened when Phil and Mitchell were on the phone
trying to force each other to stop pretending in front of Claire and Cam. Mitchell made an overstatement humor which belonged into spontaneous conversational
humor. Mitchell used overstatement humor as a probing since Mitchell wanted to get information by making a humorous utterance. Probing is one the
decommitment tactic. It is a function of humor where the speaker makes an attempt to discover information that other people do not want to know, by asking
questions carefully and not directly. Mitchell’s humor above is used to convey
implicit serious contents. He used it as a tool for negotiating issues that might be too threatening to be handled overtly.
3 Mediation
Humor is used either to introduce or carry out potentially embarrassing or aggressive interactions. In short, humor is seen as a mediating device. It is used to
test behavior which is potentially socially unacceptable and to deal with emotionally charged issues.
4: 29 JAY GLO
JAY :
: :
Ay, no, no, no. No fighting in front of the baby. We just made a deal.
Yeah, but thats not fair because I am always in front of the baby
Gloria, youre as close to perfect as woman gets. Nothing wrong with one tiny, little flaw. Yours is
when you start to sing, it sounds like something got stuck in the vacuum cleaner.
S4E10Sc14 The context of situation in the dialogue above occurred when Jay felt
annoyed by Gloria’s voice when she was singing through microphone for their unborn baby. Jay who realized that Gloria’s voice was so bad finally had a gut to
tell Gloria about how terrible she was as a singer. He told her after Manny told them about how bad it was to the unborn baby if they kept fighting in front of the
baby. He took this chance to tell Gloria about the fact, so he would not hear Gloria mad at him. Jay flouted maxim of quality since he made a hyperbole
statement by saying tha t Gloria’s voice sounds like something got stuck in the
vacuum cleaner. He used humor to criticize her voice. It made him creating spontaneous conversational humor that has mediation function. It was because
Jay carried out potentially embarrassing or aggressive interactions to Gloria in order to make her stop singing.
4: 30 GLO MAN
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Manny, please come out. Unless youre here to cut a food slot on my
door, you can leave now.
S4E12Sc15
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