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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelHumor has been used in many cases for all kinds of reasons from simple
expressions of joy to sarcasm. From the early human civilization, humor has taken
the social role to entertain, to inform and to educate the society. However, there
were only a few linguistic studies about humor, especially in Indonesia.
Therefore, the writer tried to analyze humor, particularly political humor in
Indonesia, from the linguistic point of view. The writer gathered the data from the
Internet and collected sixteen jokes that were analyzed using the theory of
conversational rules that consisted of speech act rules and conversational
implicatures. The purpose was to find out how the violation of conversational
rules worked in the jokes to create the funniness. This study was a qualitative and
descriptive study. The writer selected the data and analyzed all the data to gather
the descriptions of how the violations of conversational rules worked in the jokes.
The study was divided into two analyses. The first analysis discussed the
classification of political humor, while the second analysis was on the violation of
conversational rules. From the first analysis, the writer found out that there was
more denigration joke than exposure joke. It means that there were more jokes
which targeted on political leaders, political institution and political ideas than to
the life under a regime. The latter analysis, the writer found out that the violation
of speech act was the most frequently mechanism that occurred to create the
funniness in the jokes. It means that the funniness was achieved through the
ignorance of illocutionary force and when the perlocutionary act is made not
consequently following the illocutionary force. Hopefully, this study could help
the readers to understand the classification of political humor, especially how the
violation of conversational rules worked to produce the humorous effect in the jokes.