THE ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL HUMOR IN KOLSTED'S BLACK PARODY FILM DIE HART 2023: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH

Abstract

Implicatures play a significant function in bringing humor or varying the degrees of significance in a statement. Similar to this, flouting has started to appear often in our day-to-day interactions. The main objective of this paper is to examine Kolsted's Black Parody Film Die Hart 2023's cooperative concepts. This study is qualitative in nature. The purposive sampling approach was used to gather the data for this reason. The framework proposed by Grice (1975), who outlined four guidelines for speakers to follow when conducting a conversation, has been used in this study. The current study investigates the ways in which the movie characters have flouted the Gricean maxims. The results show that 19 utterances include 37 implicatures. The quality maxim has been violated more often than the others out of these 37 implicatures, appearing at a ratio of 13/37. The maxim of quantity with a ratio of 12/37 occurs. The maxim of relevance ranks third with a ratio of 10/37, while the maxim of manners ranks last with the lowest ratio of 02/37. To determine the scalar implicatures and speech acts in the chosen movie, this study can be further extended.