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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis semantic study of Indonesian short-text humor, developed from Dr. Wuri
Soedjatmiko's research on American humor which was done in order to find out the
semantic mechanisms that make a story sound funny and has the sense of humor. In the
research findings, she found two semantic mechanisms that can arouse laughter or create
funniness. Those are; semantic ambiguity (including lexical and grammatical
ambiguity), truth conditional semantic (including causal fallacy). Based on that
research, the writer of this thesis was challenged to find out whether those semantic
mechanisms will violate Indonesian short-text humor in order to create funniness and
which one of those semantic mechanisms (lexical ambiguity, grammatical ambiguity,
truth conditional semantics, or causal fallacy) will violate Indonesian short-text
humors greater?
The writer uses Bergson's theory of humor as the main theory. Bergson claims that the
joke is made by confusing two apparently different meanings of the same pattern (1911,
as quoted in Wilson 1979:12) and something is funny when it belongs to two different
ways. When the humor begins to be told, the readers or the listeners get their first
definition about the meaning of the humor. Suddenly (usually at the end of the humor),
they realize that the definition is wrong because of the unexpected meaning. The
semantic main theory used by the writer is the theory proposed by Hurford and
Heasley, which are talking about; semantic ambiguity (lexical and grammatical
ambiguities) and truth conditional semantics (including causal fallacy). The writer uses
qualitative approach in this study. Furthermore, she also uses descriptive method in
analyzing data. She picks 30 Indonesian short-text humors from Indonesian humor
collection book; Lasi-Laei Hua ha ha ha as her source of data. The analysis of the data
contained the analysis of humor mechanisms and semantic mechanisms in the humor.
From the analysis of Indonesian short-text humor, the writer found that all Indonesian
short-text humors use unexpected meaning to surprise the readers. The writer also
finds from the four semantic elements being analyzed, the violation of truth conditional
semantics is the greatest