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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter contains two sections: findings and discussion. In the findings section, the researcher presents the findings about the medical terms, the types and
also functions of humor that she obtains from the analysis of the character’s
utterances in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 in the form of brief explanations and
tables. Furthermore, the detailed explanation of findings are provided in the discussion.
A. Findings
Medical humor in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 is the sense of humor that is
created by the characters through their utterances. This kind of humor is contextual and somehow hard to understand by common people without medical
background knowledge. Therefore, in dealing with the humor using medical terms as a language phenomenon, pragmatic approach is needed to be applied. It is
because pragmatics provides the theory of Cooperative Principle proposed by Grice.
Based on the analysis on Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 Episodes 1-5, the
researcher found some data related to the kind of medical terms, the types and functions of humor employed by the characters. In creating humor, the characters
flout medical terms based on the types and purposes they want. The findings are presented in the form of tables and brief explanations. This findings of medical
terms, types of humor, and functions in creating humor are provided in Table 2.
Table 2. Findings of Medical Terms, Types and Functions of Humor in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2
No Medical Terms Types
Functions
1 a.
Disease b.
Medicine c.
Hospital Position
d. Anatomy
e. Medication
Process Jokes
Social Management 2
Spontaneous Conversational Humor a.
Irony Social
Management, Mediation
b. Sarcasm
Social Management,
Mediation c.
Overstatement and Understatement
Social Management,
Decommitment, Mediation
d. Self-Deprecation
Social Management e.
Teasing Social
Management, Mediation
f. Replies to Rhetorical
Question Social Management
g. Clever Replies to Serious
Statement Social Management
h. Double Entendres
Social Management i.
Transformation of Frozen Expression
Decommitment, Mediation
Table 2 shows that all of the medical terms such as disease, medicine, hospital position, anatomy, and medication process are employed by the
characters in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2. These terms are not uttered just in a
serious work situation but also in a humor creation. The medical terms are said by the characters who mostly work in the hospital as doctors and nurses.
Meanwhile, there are only two types of humor employed by the characters. They are jokes and spontaneous conversational humor. The type of humor which
cannot be found is unintentional humor because the humor in this drama mostly
are done intentionally and all of the humor are in verbal way. There is no accidental physical humor and accidental linguistic humor such as mishaps and
pratfalls, mispronunciations, errors in logic, and the kinds of speaker confusions. The type of jokes are employed just three times by the characters, particularly
between the doctors’ conversation to relieve the tension and stress. Meanwhile, in spontaneous conversational humor, there are only 9 types which are found. Those
are irony, sarcasm, overstatement, self-deprecation, teasing, reply to rhetorical question, clever reply to serious statement, double entenders, and transformations
of frozen expressions. The other types of spontaneous conversational humor which are not exist are satire and pun.
In terms of function, from four functions of humor, there is only defunctionalization that cannot be found since the characters do not apply pun and
word playing to create humor using medical terms. They just play with the meaning and the intention of humor, but not play with the homophone of the word
itself. Meanwhile, the other functions which are used and finally found by the researcher after analyzing the data are social management, decommitment, and
mediation. First, there is only one function of jokes found in the data, that is social management. Then, the sub-types of spontaneous conversational humor such as
irony, sarcasm, and teasing only have two functions which are social management and mediation. On the other hand, self-deprecation, reply to rhetorical question,
clever reply to serious statement, and double entendres have just social management as the function. Then, overstatement humor have three kinds of
function which are social management, decommitment, and mediation. The last
but not least, transformation of frozen expression humor have two types of function which are decommitment and mediation.
Social management and mediation become the main functions of humor in Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 since the humor are employed in their social group such
as close friends among the interns, the doctors and the interns, or the doctors and the patients. The humor mostly have purposes to embarrass each other whether
the embarrassments are just to tease or to criticize.
B. Discussion
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