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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThere are rules that should be obeyed in order to create cooperative
conversation between the speaker and hearer. Grice?s Cooperative Principles
consisting of four maxims of conversation: Maxim of Quantity, Maxim of
Quality, Maxim of Relation, Maxim of Manner, as the proposed principles for
having smooth conversation. When people violate the criterion to be cooperative
consciously or unconsciously, it may become one cause for humorous effect in a
comedy. Humor which is caused by the violation is the embodiment of
intelligence since it is done through manipulating the rules. This study is aimed to
find out the relationship between humor and violation of cooperative principle.
The object being investigated is humor occur in "Din Brodin" Jtv?s comedy of
episodes 157, 158, and 159. In analyzing the data, the writer used Grice?s theory
of cooperative principle. The writer used qualitative descriptive approach in
conducting her research. From this study, hopefully, the comedy script writer can
use violation of cooperative principle as one of mechanisms to create humor.