[ABSTRAK Fokus utama dalam riset ini adalah memperlihatkan kesalahan maksim dalam percakapan antar tokoh yang dijadikan sebagaistrategi humor dalam film. Korpus peneilitan ini adalah film serial Mind Your Language episode pertama dari musim serialpertama. Film ini menggambarkan sebuah tempat kursus bahasa Inggris multinasional di Inggris. Penelitian ini memperlihatkansemua pelanggaran maksim, cara, relasi, kualitas, dan kuantitas, dilanggar dalam film ini. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalahpelanggaran maksim cara merupakan pelanggaran maksim yang paling sering dilanggar, karena pelanggaran maksim inimenyebabkan ketidak selarasan dalam percakapan, yang mana adalah salah satu penyebab humor.ABSTRACT This research focused on finding how humor can be created by violating maxims in film. The corpus of this research was MindYour Language series film, especially episode one from season one, which depicted a multi-national English learning center inEngland with one new native English teacher. The result from this research showed that all maxim rules, which are manner,relation, quality and quantity, were violated in this film, but the most dominantly violated was maxim of manner. This researchconcluded that jokes can be created by violating maxim of manner because this maxim is very potential in creating incongruity inconversation, which is one of humor causes;This research focused on finding how humor can be created by violating maxims in film. The corpus of this research was MindYour Language series film, especially episode one from season one, which depicted a multi-national English learning center inEngland with one new native English teacher. The result from this research showed that all maxim rules, which are manner,relation, quality and quantity, were violated in this film, but the most dominantly violated was maxim of manner. This researchconcluded that jokes can be created by violating maxim of manner because this maxim is very potential in creating incongruity inconversation, which is one of humor causes, This research focused on finding how humor can be created by violating maxims in film. The corpus of this research was MindYour Language series film, especially episode one from season one, which depicted a multi-national English learning center inEngland with one new native English teacher. The result from this research showed that all maxim rules, which are manner,relation, quality and quantity, were violated in this film, but the most dominantly violated was maxim of manner. This researchconcluded that jokes can be created by violating maxim of manner because this maxim is very potential in creating incongruity inconversation, which is one of humor causes] |