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Pragmatic Analysis of Humor in American Animated Sitcom “American Dad! Season 17”

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This research examines the flouting and breaking of maxims by the characters in the sitcom American Dad! Season 17 it employs the Grice cooperative principle theory as well as Attardo's function of humor. This research used gualitative research method. The source of data is American animated sitcom American Dad! Season17. The data of the research is in the form of utterances that contain flouting and breaking maxim. The data is collected by watching the sitcom, making the transcript, and collecting the data from the transcript. The data analysis is conducted by selecting the data, categorization, analyzing, and drawing a conclusion. The research reveals two findings. The first is that all the four types of flouting are employed by the characters to create humor in American Dad! season17. They are flouting maxim of guantity, flouting maxim of guality, flouting maxim of relation, and flouting maxim of manner. Flouting maxim of relation is mostly employed by the characters to create humor since there are several ways to flout the maxim. For breaking maxim only two types that can be found, they are breaking maxim of guantity and breaking maxim of relation. Then, for function of humor created by flouting maxim, all the functions are found in the sitcom, they are social management, decommitment, mediation, and defunctionalization. For breaking maxim, only two functions are found in the sitcom, they are social management, and defunctionalization.

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BSI 2022

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Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2022

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English

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Flouting Maxim
Breaking Maxim
American Dad! Season 17
Function of humor

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