51 marriage.
He deliberately answered Arthur‟s question about why the air on the top should keep up with the air in the bottom instead of splitting up by saying that
they had to keep up because of the kid‟s sake. This absurd answer created a
humorous situation. From the discussion, it could be summarized that there were 67 verbal
humours collected within the object of the study. They fell into 9 categories, out of the 12 categorization proposed by Shade 1996: pun, riddle, joke, satire, farce,
irony, sarcasm, tall tale, and wit. The other three categories, limerick, parody, and anecdote had zero value.
Out of the nine categories, satire became the most frequent verbal humour that appeared within the object of the study with 20 satires collected out of 67
verbal humours 29.9. The second highest rank of appearance was irony 22.4, followed by wit 19.4, sarcasm 16.4, and joke 6.0. Each of the
last four categories, pun 1.5, riddle 1.5, farce 1.5, and tall tale 1.5, appeared only once throughout the object of the research.
B. Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour Found in BBC Radio Drama
Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi
This part is to answer research question number two. It focuses on how verbal humour found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi is
analysed using General Theory of Verbal Humour GTVH. The discussion of the analysis is presented in this part as well.
General Theory of Verbal Humour, known as GTVH proposed by Attardo 1994, is used as the main theory to analyse the object of the research. The verbal
52 humour found within the object of the research is examined by employing six
parameters the GTVH proposed, known as Knowledge Resources KRs. They are, presented in heretical way: Script Opposition SO, Logical Mechanism
LM, Situation SI, Target TA, Narrative Strategy NS, and Language LA. For the analysis, the researcher collected one sample of verbal humour for
each type of the verbal humour found in order. In total, there were nine verbal humour samples which were analysed. Followings are the result of the analysis
along with the discussion for every type of verbal humour.
1. Pun Analysis
This section is to provide an analysis of pun collected within the object of the study. The pun examined was the second verbal humour that appeared in the
object of the research which appeared on 00.02.00. The analysis of the pun is presented in table 4.10.
Table 4.10 Pun Analysis
Number of Verbal Humour: 02
Minute in Radio Drama: 00.02.00
Dialogue: Arthur
:Oh, whos that guy? Um, oh, grey haired, did that game show, Can I have a P, please, Bob?
KR SO
P vs. Pee
LM
Twisting Homonymy
SI Arthur is trying to guess the name of the presenter of a game
show by imitating the phrase that may appear in the game show.
TA None
NS Short Narrative
LA
Set-up Arthur
:Oh, whos that guy? Um, oh, grey haired, did that game show
… Punch line
Arthur
:Can I have a P, please, Bob? PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
