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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelOne of the most well-known refreshment that is needed by people in doing
their daily activities is humor. Humor can be performed in some forms. One of them
is humorous comic strip. Conversations in a humorous comic strip can produce a
humor effect when they are flouting the rules of Grice?s conversational maxims. The
four conversational maxims are Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of Quality, Maxim of
Relation, and Maxim of Manner. In this research, the writer was interested in finding
out what conversational maxims are flouted in Dilbert comic strip and also the
purposes of the flouting of the conversational maxims. As the main theories, the
writer used the theory of Grice?s conversational maxims by Brown & Yule (1996),
flouting of Grice?s conversational maxims theory proposed by Thomas (1995), and
schemata theory proposed by Brown &Yule (1983). The writer used a descriptive
qualitative approach. From the findings, the writer found that in every humorous
conversation, especially in Dilbert comic strips as the research object of this study,
there was flouting of conversational maxims. In Dilbert strips, the writer found that
all of the four conversational maxims were flouted. Furthermore, all of the flouting of
conversational maxims had the purpose that is to make satire. The satire teased the
reality that almost all people could see in business nowadays. For example, there
were satires to tease money-oriented companies, incompetent managers, exploited
and depressed employees, et cetera. Last of all, she also found that flouting the
conversational maxims did not mean that the speakers could not communicate well.
Without observing the four conversational maxims, the speakers actually still could
understand each other, in fact, it could make humorous effect.