PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF VERBAL HUMOUR FOUND IN BBC RADIO DRAMA SERIES CABIN PRESSURE: ABU DHABI A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English Language Education By Anastasia Nelladia Cendra Student Number: 121214010 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2016 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF VERBAL HUMOUR FOUND IN BBC RADIO DRAMA SERIES CABIN PRESSURE: ABU DHABI A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English Language Education By Anastasia Nelladia Cendra Student Number: 121214010 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2016 i PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT Cendra, Anastasia Nelladia. (2016). A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour Found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. English Language Education Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Yogyakarta: Sanata Dharma University. Humour is a complex phenomenon. Because of it, studies of humour are still low, although actually studies of humour are needed. Despite its complexity, humour is a common phenomenon in everyday life, becoming the vehicle for mass entertainment that has many types. One of them is in the form verbal humour found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. Related to verbal humour, a theory of verbal humour called General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) is known, making it captivating to conduct a linguistic research on verbal humour. This research, A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour Found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi was meant to conduct an analysis of verbal humour. The first objective of the research was to investigate the types of verbal humour found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. The second objective was to analyse verbal humour found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi linguistically using GTVH. The study was a qualitative study. The data of the study was gathered by employing document or content analysis. The main instrument used in this research was human instrument. In answering the first research question, the verbal humour categorization proposed by Shade (1996) was employed, whereas the second was answered by utilizing GTVH proposed by Attardo (1994). The research resulted in several findings. There were 67 verbal humours collected in BBC Radio Drama Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi that fell into 9 out of the 12 categories. The most frequent verbal humour was satire (29.9%), followed by irony (22.4%), wit (19.4%), sarcasm (16.4%), joke (6.0%), and pun, riddle, farce, and tall tale with 1.5% for each. The verbal humour found was analysed linguistically by utilizing the six Knowledge Resources (KRs) of the GTVH: Script Opposition (SO), Logical Mechanism (LM), Situation (SI), Target (TA), Narrative Strategy (NS), and Language (LA). The analysis was done in a hierarchical way following the hierarchal order of the six KRs to investigate the verbal humour starting from its core element. Keywords: Verbal Humour, Types, GTVH. Knowledge Resources vi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK Cendra, Anastasia Nelladia. (2016). A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour Found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, JPBS, FKIP, Yogyakarta: Universitas Sanata Dharma. Humor merupakan fenomena yang kompleks. Oleh karena itu, penelitian tentang humor masih rendah, walaupun sebenarnya sangat dibutuhkan. Meskipun kompleks, humor adalah fenomena umum dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, terutama dalam dunia hiburan yang beraneka ragam. Salah satunya adalah humor verbal yang terdapat pada BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. Terkait dengan humor verbal, diketahui General Theory of Verbal Humour (GVTH) yang menarik penelitian linguistik mengenai humor verbal. Peneitian berjudul A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour Found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi ini bermaksud untuk menganalisis humor verbal. Tujuan pertama penelitian ini adalah untuk megetahui tipe humor verbal di BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi. Sedangkan tujuan kedua adalah untuk menganalisis humor verbal yang terdapat di BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi secara linguistik menggunakan GTVH. Penelitian kualitatif ini menggunakan analisis dokumen untuk keperluan pegumpulan data. Instrumen utama penelitian ini adalah instrument manusia. Dalam menjawab pertanyaan pertama, kategorisasi humor verbal menurut Shade (1994) digunakan. Sedangakan pertanyaan kedua dijawab dengan menggunakan GTVH oleh Attardo (1994). Penelitian ini menghasilkan beberapa temuan. Ditemukan 67 humor verbal dalam BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi yang tergolong dalam 9 kategori. Humor verbal yang paling banyak adalah satire (29.9%), diikuti irony (22,4%), wit (19,4%), sarcasm (16,4%), joke (6,0%), dan pun, riddle, farce, serta tall tale dengan masing-masing 1,5%. Humor verbal dianalisis secara linguistik dengan menggunakan enam Knowledge Resources (KRs) dari GTVH: Script Opposition (SO), Logical Mechanism (LM), Situation (SI), Target (TA), Narrative Strategy (NS), dan Language (LA). Analisis ini dilakukan secara berurutan, mengikuti hirarki enam KRs untuk mengamati humor verbal mulai dari elemen intinya. Kata kunci: Verbal Humour, Types, GTVH. Knowledge Resources vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Jesus Christ for His joyful blessings every single day of my life, especially on the days I write this thesis. I thank him for allowing me finish this thesis by providing me comfortable setting in my life to write. He is always with me through my ups and downs. Secondly, I would like to thank Drs. Y.B. Gunawan, M.A. for all the suggestions, guidance, and advice he has kindly given to me. I thank him for the word of motivation to write, and for reminding me to write everyday regularly. Also, I thank him for every sincere smile that is always able to calm me down on the time of difficulties. In addition, I would also express my appreciation to Truly Almendo Pasaribu, S.S., M.A. for the guidance, suggestions, books and the paper for my analysis. Without her, my thesis would take much more time to finish. I would also thank parents; my father, Agustinus Budi Utama, and my mother, Christiana Sri Nuning Lestari. I thank them for giving me freedom to do what I want and for believing that I will do my best within this decision. I thank them for letting me study here, PBI Sanata Dharma, in the first place although it is so costly. I thank them for the support and encouragement I get every day, especially during this thesis writing. I just do not know how much I owe them, now. I also would like to mention special names here. I would like to thank Della, my only sister, for the beautiful distraction during this writing that is able viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI to scare away the stress and burden. I would also like to thank my beastie, Esthi, for the time we spend doing this thesis together. I enjoy the last 10 years of friendship with her. I would also express my appreciation to Hari, my tree, for reminding me to write by asking my progress over and over and for lending me his ears when the need arises and for everything we do in between. Also, I would like to thank Wening for introducing me to Cabin Pressure in the first place. Without her, this research might not be this research. Finally, I would like to thank all my friends and PBI colleagues, my brothers and sisters batch 2012 for the great adventure we had in this amazing and extraordinary study program. I thank them for all the beautiful memory that will never subside, hopefully. May God bless them all. Anastasia Nelladia Cendra ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TITLE PAGE ........................................................................................................... i APPROVAL PAGES .............................................................................................. ii STATEMENT OF WORK‟S ORIGINALITY ...................................................... iv PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI ....................................................... v ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................... vi ABSTRAK .............................................................................................................. vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................ x LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................... xiii LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................