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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
In this thesis, the object of this study is the conversation of a TV-series entitled The Thin Blue Line which is transcribed into a film script. The Thin Blue
Line is divided into two seasons. The first season was published in 1995. Seven
episodes were made in the first season: The Queen’s Birthday Present, Fire and
Terror, Honey Trap, Rag Week, Night Shift, Kids Today, Yuletide Spirit . A year
later, the second season was published and resulted seven episodes too: Court in the Act
, Ism Ism Ism, Fly on the Wall, Alternative Culture, Come on you Blue, Road Rage, The Green Eyed Monster
. In this thesis, the writer uses the first season; episode 3: Honey Trap as the object of the study.
The Thin Blue Line Season 1 TV-series is taken from www.youtube.com, while its subtitle is taken from subscene.com which provides the subtitles of most
of all films. The Thin Blue Line Season 1 is one of the productions of BBC-TV, written by Ben Elton, produced by Ben Elton and Geoffrey Perkins, and directed
by John Birkin. The Thin Blue Line is regarded as one of the best sitcoms to be made in the 90s. As a fact, this TV-series ranked 34th in the BBCs Britains Best
Sitcom poll in 2004. The Thin Blue Line
Season 1 is TV-sitcoms mainly tells about the daily lives of the police officers at Gasforth Police Station in fighting against urban
crimes and uphold the forces of law and order. In the episode 3: Honey Trap, the story tells about Inspector Grim’s entrapment operation. Grim asks Fowler to
persuade Habib to pretend as a whore to trap the villain. Meanwhile, Dawkins, Fowler’s girlfriend, feels jealous with Habib because she often sees Habib and
Fowler are in Fowler’s room alone. In fact, Fowler is talking about the entrapment operation with Habib.
In this thesis, the writer will observe the speakers’ utterances violating the maxims and creating the humorous situation in this TV-series. Here, the writer
will focus on speakers’ utterances and how they violate Grice’s maxim and finally this violations create the humorous situation comedy and elicit people’s laugh in
the conversation.
A. Approach of the Study
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