- Author: Rizka Nafiah
- From: Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
Abstract:
Intentional ambiguities are frequently used as humor by many entertainment media to maintain its serious nuance. However, since they are ambiguous, most of the humor fails to be recognized by audience. Under this circumstance, the researcher is attracted to analyze humorous ambiguities found in each season of ?Sherlock Holmes BBC Series’ and how they produce humor as they violate Grice’s maxims of Cooperative Principle. There found three from four maxims violated by Sherlock to produce ambiguities as humor. Those are maxim of quantity, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. By violating those maxims, utterances become ambiguous and construct several possible meanings which are potentially humorous. The study is expected to improve entertainment media’s creativity to produce similar kinds of humor. At the same time, it offers a great help for the audience to recognize and understand ambiguities, thus regain them better sense of humor.
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