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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is a study which uses discourse analysis
theory to analyze the coherence on the language used in
comic strips. This study is trying to describe the coherence
on the language used in comic strips by looking at
the factors which bring about their coherence. Also, it
would like to explain how utterances are meaningful in
their context. Hence, the analysis is based on the utterances
produced by the characters of the comic strips. Three
different titles of thirty comic strips which are chosen
randomly are used as the data. They are under the title
Peanuts, Rose is Rose, and The Born Loser. To be able to
note down all the factors which exist in interpreting those
comic strips, several theories from discourse analysis such
as Brown and Yule's theory on coherence, Austin's Speech
Act theory, Grice's Conversational Implicature theory,
Hymes' Ethnography of Speaking Theory are used. From the
interpretation and conclusion of the analysis, it can be
seen that all three factors of coherence suggested by Brown
and Yule must exist in describing the coherence on the
language of the comic strips. The existence of the first
aspect of coherence, computing the communicative function, is marked by the use of the illocutionary acts, representatives
and directives, in a great deal and by the many
violations of the maxim of manner. The existence of the
second aspect of coherence, using general socio-cultural
knowledge of the world, is signed by the use of psychological
schemata in the interpretation. The last aspect of
coherence, determining the inferences, accompanies the
first two aspects. Also of great importance is the existence
of the pictures of each comic strips which serve as a
bridge to come to the overall interpretation of their
meaning. Thus, by working on the three aspects of coherence
and provided with the context of situation (in this case,
the pictures following each utterance), the coherence on
the language used in comic strips can be described.