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.