Analysis of Flouting Maxim in Creating Spontaneous Humor as Seen in Phony Texts Facebook Page in April 2023
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Abstract
The flouting maxim refers to the way speakers intentionally do not give the information clearly and appropriately to the listeners but expect them to understand what the speakers’ meaning. Hence, the humor created by the flouting maxim phenomenon can be found in the way people communicate in real life or on social media. It can be seen through one of the Facebook pages, that is the Phony Texts page. The Phony Texts page on Facebook is an entertainment page in the form of written utterances. The objectives of this research are to understand the classification of flouting maxim and to comprehend the way spontaneous humor occurs by flouting maxim in the Phony Texts Facebook page in April 2023. The researchers used a descriptive-qualitative method in conducting and explaining the whole types of the data in the research object. The video that is analyzed during April Fool’s Day since it is the time when people are pranking each other with humor and fools intentionally. The theories that used in this research are flouting maxim by Grice and Spontaneous humor by Martin. There are 82 data (47.67%) of flouting of the quality maxim. The writers ensure the viewers catch the story easily and understand that almost all the stories in the videos are about self-defense from accusations. Therefore, the flouting of the quality maxim is the most dominant number of data than the other types of the flouting maxim in the “Funny Text Stories” playlist of Phony Texts Facebook page, taken from April 1st to 7th during the first week of April Fool’s Day in 2023. Then, there are 44 data (25.58%) of overstatement-understatement. It is because the speakers mostly give hyperbolic statements with the aim to assure the listeners what is said is true even though it is not true.