Forms of Humor Created by Maxim of Relation Flouting

Manny flouted maxim of relation because he gave irrelevant answer to Jay. Jay greeted him with “Good morning”, and Manny should greet him back. However, he answered it with an utterance that was irrelevant to Jay ’s greeting. Manny’s utterance was considered as teasing since he used humorous remark directed at Jay’s birthday. Jay celebrated his 65th birthday, so there were 65 candles on a cake. Manny made humorous remark by saying that even the astronauts could see the cake from space because there were too many candles in the cake. 4 Clever replies to serious statements This means clever, incongruous, or nonsensical replies to a statement or question that was meant to be serious. The statement is deliberately misconstrued so that the speaker replies to a meaning other than the intended one. The following Datum is an example of clever reply to serious statements created by maxim of relation flouting. 4: 22 MAN JAY : : Jay, do you know a good 1-hour dry cleaner? And I dont mean the Must be in by 10:00, only on weekdays, you need a coupon kind. I mean a hard 1-hour. This conversation feels like a hard one hour. S4E10Sc13 Manny is a 13 year old boy who acted like he was already an adult. He worried a lot about every single detail. The dialogue above happened when Manny asked Jay if Jay knew one hour dry cleaner because Manny thought that his football uniform was dirty. Ja y who knew that Manny’s uniform was fine did not give Manny an answer. Jay flouted maxim of relation since he does not give an answe r to Manny’s question. He made clever reply to serious statement to end the conversation because Manny’s uniform was spotless.

d. Forms of Humor Created by Maxim of Manner Flouting

From the findings, the researcher found that the characters only created spontaneous conversational humor by maxim of manner flouting. The forms of spontaneous conversational humor that they created are clever replies to serious statements and pun. 1 Clever replies to serious statements This means clever, incongruous, or nonsensical replies to a statement or question that was meant to be serious. The statement is deliberately misconstrued so that the speaker replies to a meaning other than the intended one. The following Datum is an example of clever reply to serious statements.

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: : So how goods Lukes team anyway? Well, you may have seen them on youtube under Boy stuck in batting helmet or Pitcher beans self. But a few of them went through puberty early this year, so... S4E10Sc2 In this episode, Luke and Mannys baseball team tied for the final spot in the playoffs, but since nobody was expecting it, all the fields were booked. Cam