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of excellence. Legionaries are duty-bound to be the best trained, the strongest, the most disciplined. So you can imagine how proud Gluteus Maximus is when he is
selected to represent Rome at the Olympic Games. He is extremely strong and fast for a human. His confidence is shaken by the superhuman abilities granted to the
Gauls by their potion http:comicvine.gamespot.comgluteus-maximus4005- 62175.
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“I am the best” he exclaims. It is true that he is the best but an encounter in the forest with Gauls brimming with magic potion soon makes him forget his
dreams of grandeur. Gluteus feels like a “loser” and starts vigorously sweeping the Aquarium camp instead of practicing his sport Retrieved from http:-
asterix.comthe-a-to-z-of-asterixcharactersgluteus-maximus.html. Accessed on March, 22 2016.
F. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
In this research, pragmatics becomes the appropriate approach to use since PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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analyzing the speech acts and the cooperative principle in the comic Asterix at the Olympic Games is very important to reveal how the humor is produced. It is stated
by Hamlyn 1988: 806 that humor is interpreted as a violation of principles of communication suggested by pragmatic principles. It is also important to know
the non linguistic aspect of the comic which help producing the humor. It is as Hamlyn 1988: 806 said that humor will not sound funny or laughable if it is not
understandable, emerging antipathy attitude and breaking someone’s feelings and not meeting the appropriate time, place and situations.
Further, this study comes up to employ the speech act theories suggested by Austin and Searle to analyze the types of speech acts employed in the funny
conversation in the comic Asterix at the Olympic Games. This research employs Austin’s theory to describe the locutionary, illocutionary and the perlocutionary
acts. Locutionary act is an act of producing a recognizable grammatical utterance in the language. It is the basis of utterance that conveys meaningful linguistic
expression. The illocutionary act of an utterance sometimes is different from what the speaker literally says. Perlocutionary act is what one does by saying
something. It is performed with the intention of producing further effect. In addition, this research also employs cooperative principle theory
suggested by Grice. The theory is used to find out the violated maxims which produce humor in the comic. There are four observed maxims that are maxim of
quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of manner and maxim or relation. This research also tries to find out the non linguistic aspects which help
producing the humor. In this research, the present researcher employs the theory PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
