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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
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Based on what it is stated above, the present researcher will focus more on non-linguistic context of the comic. The non-linguistics contexts which will be
analyzed in this paper are the character’s expression and the illustration.
Table 4.3. The occurrence of funny character’s expression and illustration Context of Situation
Data Funny Data
Percentage
Illustration 23
11 61,1
Character’s expression 23
7 38,9
TOTAL 18
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1. Character’s Expression
A smile or a frown, for instance, can have different meanings. It can be a speech-regulation signal e.g., a back-channel signal, a speech-related signal
illustrator, a means for signaling relationship e.g., when a couple is discussing a controversial topic, a smile can indicate that although they disagree on the topic
there is no danger for the relationship, an indicator for cognitive processes e.g., frowning often occurs when somebody does some hard thinking while
concentrated on attending to a problem, or when a difficulty is encountered in a task, and an indicator for an emotion affect display.
In this comic, there are 7 funny facial expressions. The first funny facial expression is the expression of Chief Vitalstatistix. The setting of the first
example is when Geriatrix is coming back from picking mushroom. He informs Chief Vitalstatistix, Getafix, Asterix and Obelix that the Romans are cheering up
and in a good mood. Chief Vitalstatistix is very curious because the Romans are rarely felt happy. There are some conversations between the characters as follow:
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Figure 4.20. Datum 1p6. Example of funny expression.
Page 6: Chief Vitalstatistix: “Hm… Thats odd. I don’t know what to make of them
….” Obelix
: “Soup. Mushroom soup is very nice.”
Chief Vitalstatistix: “SOUP?... IS THAT ALL YOU CAN THINK OF, OBELIX?...
The funny illustration is when Chief Vitalstatistix shouts to Obelix after hearing Obelix response to what he said before. In the comic, it is illustrated how
Chief Vitalstatistix shouts to Obelix. His words in the conversation balloon are written in uppercase bold with extra size. It also becomes funny to see the
expression of the angry Chief Vitalstatistix. It is illustrated that his face becomes red when he is angry.
In the second example, the scene happens when Chief Vitalstatistix comes to The Aquarium where the Romans stay. He meets Chief Gaius Veriambitius to
tell him that the Gauls will also join the Olympic Games. The conversation is as follow:
