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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter is to close the research by providing the conclusions and some recommendations related to the study. There are two parts in this chapter, namely
conclusions and recommendations. The first part is to conclude the findings and discussion which have been presented in the previous chapter related to both the
research questions. The second part is to provide some suggestions to the readers pertaining to the research.
A. Conclusions
The researcher collected, in total 67 verbal humours in the object of the research, BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. The most
frequent verbal humour that appeared within the object of the study was satire that appeared 20 times 29.9 out of 67 verbal humours. The second highest rank of
verbal humour appearance was irony 22.4, followed by wit 19.4, sarcasm 16.4, and joke 6.0. Each of the last four categories, pun, riddle, farce, and
tall tale, only appeared once throughout the entire episode 1.5. On the other side, the researcher did not find verbal humour within the object of the study that
fell into the other three categories: limerick, parody, and anecdote. The analysis of the verbal humour was done successfully by utilizing the
six Knowledge Resources KRs of the General Theory of Verbal Humour GTVH: Script Opposition SO, Logical Mechanism LM, Situation SI,
65 Target TA, Narrative Strategy NS, and Language LA. The analysis of the
verbal humour was done in a hierarchical way. It followed hierarchical order of the six Knowledge Resources. Firstly, the analysis was conducted by examining
the verbal humour using the most complex parameters, the Script Opposition and the Logical Mechanism. Then, the analysis was continued by employing the next
four KRs, the SI, TA, NS, and LA, sequentially. Doing so allowed the researcher to closely examine the elements of the humour from the core element first to the
serving.
B. Recommendations
It is suggested to the readers to conduct more studies concerning about humour, especially verbal humour, as the study is still fairly new. Pursuing more
researches on verbal humour, especially the more extensive ones, may be a very good idea to do. The object for the further studies is also not limited to radio
drama. Other work containing verbal humour such as movies, songs, poems can also be a great source to broaden the knowledge and understanding on verbal
humour. General Theory of Verbal Humour GTVH with its six Knowledge
Resources KRs is a very powerful theory to analyse humour linguistically. The researcher suggests that GTVH can be utilized more to conduct further analysis of
verbal humour. It can be noted that GVTH could be employed also to conduct more specific analysis rather that a general analysis like this research is limited to.
Employing GTVH allows more researchers to focus on a certain KR, for example the SO, in order to do an in-depth investigation.
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