LANGUAGE IN USE

THE IMPLICATURE-BASED JOKES ANALYSIS ON

CANGEHGAR (CARITA NGEUNAH DAN SEGAR)
COMEDY
Under the Direction of
WAWAN GUNAWAN, Ph. D

IMAN HILMANSYAH
1402203

CONTENTS
OF THE RESEARCH
RESEARCH BACKGROUND
OBJECTIVE
METHOD
FINDING
C O N C LU S I O N & R E C O M M E N D AT I O N

RESEARCH

BACKGROUND

Humor is a universal phenomenon that is

demonstrated by most cultures (Sen, 2012).
Understanding the form of creating jokes
especially Sundanese jokes is interesting to be
done.
Implicature also usually used in the form of
jokes.

This study focused on analyzing the implicature-based

jokes classifications that appear in cangehgar
(carita ngeunah dan segar) comedy.
RESEARC QUESTION
What are implicature-based jokes classifications that
appear in cangehgar (carita ngeunah dan segar)
comedy?

OBJECTIVE

METHOD
The descriptive qualitative research was used because of several advantages
includes inductive, holistic, emic, subjective and process- oriented
methods used to understand, interpret, describe and develop a theory on a
phenomena or setting (Burns & Grove 2003, p. 356).
The instruments on this study were dialogue transcript of cangehgar comedy.
there are several steps that were conducted by the researcher:
1. The writer start the study by downloading the audio (the cangehgar MP3) from;
https://aslisunda.wordpress.com/bobodoran/ on 1st June 2015
2. The writer listen the audio;
3. The writer select the episodes that will be transcribed;
4. The writer took a note for make the monologue transcript;
5. The writer analyzed the transcript based on Implicature-based jokes theory;
6. The writer describing the result.
7. The data were analyze by using descriptive quantitative and content analysis

The data analysis used Padan method. It means that the data were analyzed
outside from point of view of language itself such as structure, phoneme,
etc.) (Sudaryanto, 1993 p. 13-15)

METHOD
The transcript was analyzed by using classification of Implicaturebased jokes that was conducted by (Higashimori, 2008). The
classifications of implicature-based jokes are:
A joke which comes from two contradictory implicatures;
A joke which comes from an absurd assumption;
A joke which is from an absurd implicature; and
A joke which is from two contradictory assumptions.
A joke based on parallel processing.
A joke which comes from a rhetorical question.

Explaining the results

FINDINGS

FIRST EPISODE OF CANGEHGAR COMEDY

SECOND EPISODE OF CANGEHGAR COMEDY

Third Episode of
Cangehgar comedy

joke was created Based on parallel processing

CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS

The results on this study show first and the second cangehgar episodes are
the joke that based on two contradictory assumptions. But in the last
episode the classification that was found is joke which is based on
parallel processing
Since the study only focus on analyzing the implicature-based jokes
classifications that appear in cangehgar (carita ngeunah dan segar)
comedy, and because cangehgar comedy is well known by Sundanese
people, it will be better if the future research try to analyze the other
aspects of pragmatics related to cangehgar comedy. .

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