scholarly journals SARCASM: MOCK POLITENESS IN THE BIG BANG THEORY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Nico Harared ◽  
Siti Nurani

Sarcasm has become an uncommon way to treat other’s faces in communication. However, the study of sarcasm has not yet been investigated thoroughly in the case of such daily illocutionary acts of the conversations. One of the sarcasm phenomena is mostly seen in the comedy situation of The Big Bang Theory. This research aims at analyzing mock politeness or sarcasm in the utterances of each character. The analysis focuses on describing the use of mock politeness in pragmatics context. The data was obtained from informal speech acts’ situations. The research carries out the descriptive qualitative method. The data was analyzed by using politeness strategy in examining the functions of mock politeness. The results show that sarcasm caused by the violation of pragmatic aspects in The Big Bang Theory releases in several types of utterances, they are: declarative, representative, and expressive. The function of sarcasm in this comedy situation mostly to create humors which are divided into several functions such as humor as a means of social critics, humor to satirize, and humor to mock.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Siti Sarah Fitriani ◽  
Chairina Nasir ◽  
Farrah Fajrianti Fonna

Purpose of the study: This study aimed at finding out the types of illocutionary acts which create humor effect in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory Episode The Thespian Catalyst (S04E14). Methodology: A descriptive qualitative study with the pragmatic approach of illocutionary acts suggested by Searle (1975) was undertaken by observing the utterances spoken by all the characters in the sitcom. Main findings: The results of the study showed that there were four types of illocutionary acts found in the sitcom; assertive, directive, commissive, and expressive. Those illocutionary acts also flouted the maxim of Cooperative Principles, i.e. quality and relevance. In conclusion, it can be known that the humor that occurred in the sitcom is the result of the way the characters conveyed illocutionary acts that also have flouted the maxim as in the Cooperative Principles. Applications of this study: This study is expected to be a reference for other studies in the field of pragmatics particularly in illocutionary acts. Novelty/Originality of this study:This current study, however, would discuss The Big Bang Theory sitcom by using the Illocutionary Act framework proposed by Searle (1975).


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Kurnia Sari Wijayanti ◽  
Fitri Yulianti

<p class="05IsiAbstrak">The aims of the article are to find out: 1) kinds of illocutionary acts which are produced by the main characters in “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” movie, and 2) the most dominant illocutionary acts.  In analyzing the data, the authors used descriptive qualitative method.  The object of this study was main character’s dialogue of “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” movie.  The authors did these following steps: watched the movie, found the transcript, identified the dialogues of main character, classified them using Searle’s theory, and interpreted the meaning of utterances.  Here are 52 utterances with illocutionary acts. The results were: 1) Representative (assertive) (65%), 2) Directive (19%), 3) Expressive (8%), 4) Commissive (6%), and 5) Declarative (2%) in scale of 100%. Representative (assertive) was the most dominant. This study can be a reference for learning pragmatics, especially illocutionary acts. The teachers can also use movie as speech acts teaching media.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Nura Siti Mufiah ◽  
Muhammad Yazid Nur Rahman

This research deals with the types of illocutionary acts in Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech. The research concerns with illocutionary act produced by Donald Trumps as a President of American. The aim of this research was to analyze the types of illocutionary speech act which was dominantly used in that speech. This research applied descriptive qualitative method and speech act theory by Yule. There were 63 utterances and the percentage of utterances were Representative 46%, Expressive 11%, Directive 16%, Commissive 12,7%, and Declarative 14,3%. The result showed that Donald Trump assert to the audience about the nation will be.It is found that Trump’s speech acts in his speech are intended as statement of fact and assertion. Disscussion of hopes implied in Trump’s speech acts. As seen on the table above, it can be seen that Trump hoped that his audiences would be persuaded to act 


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Suardi

Some of the problems faced by students in learning English are speech acts. This research focused on finding the speech acts. This study aims to get an overview of humor speech acts of the big bang theory. The qualitative descriptive approach will be used along with the content analysis technique. The result shows that: (1) there are three parts of speech acts used, including locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, (2) there is a violation of quantity, quality, relevance, and manner maxim. However, the most violation maxim was at the quantity maxim, (3) the screenwriters intentionally create a dialogue with several principles’ violations of speech acts, team-works, and humor categories. It can be concluded that the speech acts humor of the big bang theory screenwriters intentionally made some mistakes to create humor to raise up the jocularity atmosphere that can be enjoyed by the viewers. It is expected that this research can enrich the knowledge as regard the linguistic phenomena especially those which are related to speech acts.


HUMANIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Gusti Alit Mahendra ◽  
I Gusti Ayu Gede Sosiowati ◽  
Ni Ketut Alit Ida Setianingsih

The study entitled “Direct and Indirect Directive Illocutionary Acts in the Movie Penguin of Madagascar” is aimed at identifying the direct and indirect directive types of illocutionary acts and explaining and analyzing the meaning of the utterances interpreted by the listeners. The data of this study were taken from the movie entitled Penguins of Madagascar, and it was chosen because of many utterances identified as directive of illocutionary acts. The observation and documentation methods were used in collecting the data since the data were obtained from the spoken source in the movie. The data were analyzed using the descriptive qualitative method since the purpose of this study is to analyze the social phenomena like speech acts. The first theory proposef by Bach and Harnish (1979: 47) is used to analyze the type of directive of illocutionary acts. The second theory, the context of situation proposed by Dell Hymes (1972, is used to analyze the meaning of directive of illocutionary acts that can be interpreted by the listeners. There are six types of directive of illocutionary act proposed by Bach and Harnish (1979). They are requestives, questions, requirements, permissives, prohibitives and advisories. In this study, several types of directive illocutionary were found in the movie, except the indirect question, and direct prohibitive. The way the listeners interpret the meaning depends on the context of situation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Ayu Isnu Maharani

This study aims to describe the type of wordplay in the subtitle of the movie entitled ‘TheBig Bang Theory’ and also to describe the technique applied in translating the wordplay.This study is a descriptive qualitative and library study. The data was collected throughobservation and note taking techniques. The framework of this study is Delabatista (1993)concerning with types of wordplay translation and Humanika (2012) about the techniques totranslate the wordplay.This study found that there are three types of wordplay; they are the phonological structure(homonymy and homophony), the lexical development (idiom) and the syntactic structure.The techniques of translating wordplay found consist of literal translation, loan translation,situational translation and no translation.


JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Erni Hastuti ◽  
Hani Amalia Utami ◽  
Teddy Oswari

Speech acts are pragmatic elements that involve speaker and hearers in every conversation in which it has an illocutionary act. The purpose of the research was to find out the types and functions of illocutionary acts. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data analyzed used the theory of Searle. The source of data is utterance of the main character in Fear of Rain movie. In this research, there are 355 data which contain types of illocutionary acts, such as assertive with 189 data (53%) which consist of 7 functions (stating, informing, asserting, complaining, predicting, convincing, agreeing). Directives with 117 data (33%) consisted of 7 functions (asking, commanding, requesting, advising, warning, suggesting, inviting). Commissive with 19 data (5%) which consist of 3 functions (promising, refusing, and offering). Expressive with 30 data (9%) consisted of 6 functions (thanking, apologizing, praising, greeting, blaming, and expressing anger). The most frequently type of illocutionary act is assertive because the utterance of the main character is believed to be true based on the fact


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Lilik Istiqomah ◽  
Yudi Hartanto ◽  
Tika Fatmalasari

This research aims to analyze the linguistic compression in the film Saving Private Ryan in the Indonesian subtitle on the speech acts. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The source of data is the conversation among characters in the film Saving Private Ryan. Meanwhile, data of this research are the utterances or sentences in the subtitle of the movie which involve two different languages; English (Source Language) and Indonesian (Target Language). The finding shows that there are 22 data of illocutionary speech acts which are translated by using linguistic compression technique and categorized into three types of illocutionary acts. The quality of the subtitles translated by that technique is very good because it translated accurately, the meaning or intention in words can be accurately delivered into the target language.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
M. Anzaikhan

Philosophy is known as the mother (root) of science. Obviously, all scientific disciplines stemmed from the mind (thinking) start with philosophy. During its development, however, science independently detached itself from its philosophical identity. Similarly, it also occurred in astronomy, which practically seems to split into various branches. Therefore, this research aims to reveal the substance of the philosophical essence in the discipline of astronomy. To this end, the study seeks to find out how philosophy contributes to astronomy, not only in its role as the theoretical framework but also as the practical orientation. This research was in the form of a qualitative method, whose reference sources were based on literature studies. The findings suggest that philosophy has prominent roles for science since in astronomy, the origins of universe formation such as nebula and the big bang theory are also discussed. In philosophy, the creation of the universe was previously studied by philosophers centuries ago, long before the BC (Before Christ) calendar was discovered. Moreover, the solar system, eclipses, prayer entry times, Islamic calendar, the calculation of ‘qibla’ direction, and such were discussed in philosophy in a similar fashion as well. Astronomical terms were also consistently mentioned in depth by philosophers long before astronomy was acknowledged. In fact, some of the astronomers are also philosophers. Thus, it is effectively helpful to study astronomy through philosophy to fully comprehend it. In conclusion, when the philosophical foundation about the conceptual of astronomy has been solid, it will strongly impact on determining the right policy for the socio-religious life of the community. If the substance of philosophy and science are in perfect harmony, it will produce an ideal formula for more contextual and moderate religious policies. AbstrakFilsafat dikenal sebagai induk ilmu pengetahuan, semua ilmu yang memainkan peran akal (berpikir) tentu berawal dari filsafat. Pada perkembangannya, ketika ilmu itu mampu berdiri sendiri, maka ia melepaskan diri dari identitas filsafat. Begitu juga dengan ilmu falak yang secara praktis seolah berdiri sendiri dengan berbagai cabang-cabangnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk merefleksikan pentingnya esensi filsafat dalam disiplin ilmu falak. Adapun masalah yang diangkat adalah bagaimana filsafat itu berkontribusi bagi kajian ilmu falak bukan hanya dalam dataran teoritis namun juga dapat memberikan sumbangsih yang lebih luas pada orientasi praktis. Design penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan sumber referensi berbasis kajian pustaka. Temuan sejauh ini, menunjukkan bahwa peran filsafat sangat vital bagi ilmu falak, pada kajian Ilmu Falak membahas asal-usul penciptaan alam semesta seperti teori nebula, big bang, dan teori lainnya. Dalam Filsafat, penciptaan alam semesta sudah dibahas oleh para filosof alam bahkan berabad yang lalu sebelum tahun masehi ditemukan. Begitu juga ketika membahas sistem tata surya, gerhana, masuknya waktu shalat, kalender Islam, penentuan arah kiblat dan masih banyak lagi. Bila dikaitkan dengan filsafat, jauh sebelum Ilmu Falak lahir filsafat sudah membicarakan term terkait muatan ilmu falak secara lebih intens dan mendalam. Bahkan, tidak sedikit tokoh ilmu falak juga seorang filosof. Maka, sangat efektif jika mempelajari Ilmu Falak dimulai dari kajian filsafat agar pemahaman terkait muatan Ilmu Falak dapat dicerna secara orisinal. Kesimpulannya, ketika landasan filosofis terkait muatan Ilmu Falak sudah solid, maka itu sangat berpengaruh dalam menentukan kebijakan yang tepat bagi kehidupan sosial-beragama masyarakat. Dengan menyinergikan substansi filsafat dan Ilmu Falak   maka akan menghasilkan formula ideal terhadap kebijakan beragama yang lebih kontekstual dan moderat. 


Pujangga ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Nico Harared

<p><em>The research basically aims at describing implicature utterances and implicature </em><em>strategy of the speech acts and its types of utterance used in the situation comedy series of The Big Bang Theory seen from the Pragmatics point of view</em><em>. </em><em>The data is analyzed and described qualitatively by examining the correlation of the implicature strategy of the speech acts and its types of utterance. The data of this research is the implicature utterances of the characters, particularly the ones that appear in each type of utterance (i.e.,declarative, interogative and imperative) and types of speech act (i.e. representative, expressive, directive, and commissive). The source of data is face-to-face conversations among characters who are Physicists and one friend work as waiter. The data is taken from the conversations in the 20 series of three seasons of the situation comedy series of The Big Bang Theory. Findings have shown that implicature utterances among characters by exemplifying declarative, interrogative and imperative. Implicature strategy of the speech acts and its types of utterancethat is subcategorized into several types of utterance of speech act, namely: representative, directive and expressive.</em></p>


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