Journal of Pragmatics Research
Vol 1, No 1 (2019): Journal of Pragmatics Research

Analysis of Humor on Cartoon Comics "Be Like Bro": Pragmatics Study

Anindita Dewangga Puri (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
FX. Risang Baskara (Faculty of Business, Design, and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Mar 2019

Abstract

This article aims to identify the types of violation of conversational maxims created by cartoon comic entitled “Be Like Bro” in the English version and also to describe how the humorous situation can be created from those violations. There are two findings in this research. First, those six data show that there is a violation of conversational maxims, which are the maxim of quantity, the maxim of relevance, and the maxim of manner. Those six data also show that the humorous situation is creating by incongruent meaning in the conversation and releasing the feeling. Keywords: humor, cooperative principles, context, pragmatics

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jopr

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of Pragmatics Research is published by State Insitute of Islamic Studies Salatiga, Indonesia. it is a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, socio-pragmatics, ...