Maxim of Manner Flouted Maxim

95 Figure 4.19. Datum 21p.43. Example of flouted relation maxim. Page 43 Chief Gaius Veriambitius : “Here Gluteus Maximus… If we are to be promoted, Julius Caesar has to be pleased. And if Julius Caesar is to be pleased, you have to win the race and the palm of victory. Now I have an idea. There may be a shed over there, with a door which doesn’t shut properl. One that isn’t guarded by night, containing …” Gluteus Maximus : “A CAULDRON OF MAGIC POTION” Chief Gaius Veriambitius : “Sssh Righ… Er… Ave, boys” Gluteus Maximus : “Veriambitius old Chap” Roman : “Quo vadis, Veriambitius? I will soon be dark. We must go to bed early. With the race tomorrow …” Chief Gaius Veriambitius : “Oh, we were just off for the little walk …” Roman : “Julius Caesar wouldn’t be very pleased to know that we Romans weren’t sticking together…. Would he? PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 96 The illustration shows Chief Gaius Veriambitius and Gluteus Maximus plan to steal the magic potion in the shed which is told by Asterix and Getafix. When they are ready to go the shed, the other chief from other part of Roman comes over them and states that they have to get to bed early. But since Chief Gaius Veriambitius does not want the Roman knows that they will go to the shed, he tells him that he will have a little walk with Gluteus Maximus. By telling it, Chief Gaius Veriambitius wants to hide the truth that he intends to steal the magic potion. It means that Chief Gaius Veriambitius flouts maxim of relation. From the explanations above, to understand the humor, we can analyze the maxims of the utterance. To create the humor, the maxim of the conversation in Asterix at the Olympic Games comic are violated or flouted. By violating the maxim, the speakers intentionally refrain to apply certain maxims in their conversation to cause misunderstanding on their participants’ part or to achieve some other purposes. However, the flouting of maxims takes place when individuals deliberately cease to apply the maxims to persuade their listeners to infer the hidden meaning behind the utterances.

C. NON LINGUISTICS CONTEXT

In chapter II, it is stated that one evidence that should be noticed about context is that people make humor about mismatches of speaker characteristics and language and of physical setting and language. Many cartoons are based on a clash between the expectations from the picture, which is the context, and the caption. Normally people process the picture rapidly before they read the caption. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI