38 identified. The identification was seen when ‘any turns which are breaking one or
more of the Gricean maxims’ Brumark, 2004:13.
2. Classifying the Conversations
After identifying the existence of maxim, the conversations which indicated to have humorous effects were classified and analyzed further. The conversations,
which violated the maxims of cooperative principles were coded such as
[S02EP01QLVL1], meaning the excerpt was taken from the episode 01 which
indicated to violate maxim quality.
3. The Steps of Categorizing the Violation Maxims
The data were organized by placing each conversation into its category in the references with four 4 kinds of non-observance maxims, it might belong to
category of flouting, violating, infringing or suspending.
4. The Steps of Dividing the Excerpts
After collecting the data, the researcher put the humorous conversations consisting of violation maxims into tables. The table were preceded by the text of
conversations, so that the context of humor could be seen. These texts were called as excerpts. The following table were analyzed to answer the first research problem
which was what kinds of non-observance maxims employed in humorous conversations.
2.1 Non-observance of maxims distribution based on types of maxims No. Code
Excerpt Maxims
Indication QL QN RL MN
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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.