Pragmatic Study of Humor Discourse at Saturday Night Live Show

Abstract

This study focuses on the violations of the maxim that occurred on the Saturday Night Live comedy program. The purpose of this research is (1) to describe the types of violations found in the Saturday Night Live Show, (2) to explain the violations of maxim realized and (3) the reason why using maxim violations can produce a funny and laughing thing .Data was taken from the Saturday Night Live comedy program. The study was conducted using qualitative analysis. The findings show that there were four types of violations of the maxim carried out by the cast on Saturday Night Live Show. They are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of manner, maxim of relation. violations of maxim violations realized in this study are indicated by the situation of a saying that is not true and making it up and not in accordance with the facts, words that are not in accordance with the information limit that needs to be conveyed and excessive, the words whose meaning is unclear and ambiguous, the discrepancy between speaker and listener. while the reason for violating maxim is based on how linguistic pragmatic analysis describes humor by applying the humorous singularity theory to show ways or mechanisms that lead to a maxim offense that can lead to the creation of a humor. investigating the ways in which maxims are violated to create humor, and showing how improper language usage sometimes creates an unintentional humor.