Politeness Principles Violation of “Mind Your Language” Comedy Series: A Pragmatic Analysis
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211227.014How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Maxim violation; generosity maxim; approbation maxim; modesty maxim; agreement maxim; tact maxim; sympathy maxim
- Abstract
Communication happens when two people or more interact verbally. To make communication run smoothly, people must pay attention to communication principles, namely cooperation and politeness principles. However, sometimes these communication principles are intentionally violated, especially for creating humor purposes. This study aimed to analyze the types of politeness principles violation found in Mind Your Language comedy series, and the effect of these politeness principles violation towards the characters in Mind Your Language comedy series. This study used a qualitative approach, using descriptive qualitative research design. The instrument of the study was the video of Mind Your Language comedy series. In addition, in collecting the data, the scripts and the video of Mind Your Language comedy series from episodes 1-5 were used. The findings show there were six types of politeness principles violation consisting of six maxims: tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. In addition, the politeness principles violation in Mind Your Language comedy series has fourteen effects, namely curious, confused, trusted, angry, annoyed, shy, shocked, panic, happy, bored, enthusiastic, laugh, disappointed, and strange. These findings imply that languages used in a certain context may have different meaning, and therefore students of English Language Education should be aware about such situation. Therefore, teaching foreign languages should also include not only semantics but also pragmatics.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Eko Purwanti AU - Hilmy Herbianto PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/29 TI - Politeness Principles Violation of “Mind Your Language” Comedy Series: A Pragmatic Analysis BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation Track Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICSIHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 79 EP - 86 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211227.014 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211227.014 ID - Purwanti2021 ER -