CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE FOUND IN STAND-UP COMEDY SHOW BY TREVOR NOAH: Criticizing the Government through Stand-Up Comedy

Hartono, Missherly Angelia Steffani (2023) CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE FOUND IN STAND-UP COMEDY SHOW BY TREVOR NOAH: Criticizing the Government through Stand-Up Comedy. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Widya Kartika.

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This research deals with conversational implicature and flouted maxim found in stand-up comedy. This descriptive qualitative research, analyzed 12 utterances of Trevor Noah from YouTube video entitled “Trevor Noah COMPLETE REMARKS at 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (C-SPAN)” using Grice’s conversational implicature theory. The finding shows that from 12 utterances, every utterance can contain more than one type of flouted maxims, the details are as follows, 10 manner, 9 quality, 7 relevance, 6 maxims of quantity. The researcher also finds that, Noah applied Particularized Conversational Implicature more frequently than Generalized Conversational Implicature, with a ratio of 11:1. Noah has done this to make his satire is less offensive. As a result of the research, comics used the theory of implicature by flouting the maxim to make every criticism and satire that he conveys does not sound too offensive. To convey the hidden message of the comic, listeners need more effort to understand the implicit meaning of the comic. They need to know the specific context to get the point the speaker is trying to make.

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