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Principle of Cooperation in Human Conversation Risma Sari; Suci Chairunnisa; Kristina Gultom; Ega Sauly Sitio
JELITA Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Journal of English Language Teaching and Literature (JELITA)
Publisher : STKIP Muhammadiyah Barru

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In communication, each party involved, namely between the speaker and the speech partner, will always try to convey his speech effectively and efficiently. Grice mentioned that a reasonable discourse could occur if the speaker and hearer are compliant with the principle of cooperative communication. This study aims to explain what it is called maxims in human conversation. The data in this qualitative study were taken from 5 prominent articles which explain and review the theory. This research uses a descriptive qualitative form to analyze and describe the words or sentences used in defining the theory proposed by Grice. The results of this study, in brief, mentioned the principle of cooperation in conversation consists of four conversational maxims, namely: Maxim of quantity, Maxim of quality, Maxim of Relevance and Maxim of implementation.
Implication of Humor in Human Conversations Kristina Gultom; Suci Chairunnisa; Risma Sari; Ega Sauly Sitio
JELITA Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Journal of English Language Teaching and Literature (JELITA)
Publisher : STKIP Muhammadiyah Barru

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Pragmatics can be defined as a branch of linguistics that studies deiksis, presupposition, discourse analysis and conversational implicature. Implicature can be interpreted as a hidden intention behind the speech. Meanwhile, conversational implicatures are only known by most people who know the context tuturannya alone. Conversational implicatures are trying to analyze a conversation in order to obtain the correct meaning. Humour is the mental ability to discover, express or appreciate something funny or something really unusual. Funny is an adjective that means making people laugh out loud or through absurdity, strangeness, something excessive or real eccentricity.