| Summary: | People need humor, but the need is in different levels. Humor does not only
serve as entertainment but also as a means of communication and a form of human
expression. Humor can take the form of written riddle which is the development of
the oral tradition. Its written form is easier to analyze its structure, linguistic
aspects and functions.
This research is descriptive qualitative with sequence of work steps: data
collection, data classification, data analysis, and deduction. Data retrieval is
conducted by listening to the data in the form of written humorous riddle discourse
of the representative books published in 2010. Furthermore, the data are classified
according to certain criteria, and then analyzed. The data analysis uses frontier
method to analyze the creation strategy and the function of humorous riddle and
agih method to look at the structure facts and language aspects of the humorous
riddle.
The results of the analysis can be divided into three main points. First, in
general, humorous riddle consists of the elements of question and the elements of
answer. Humor in the humorous riddle usually arises as a result of the distortion of
cooperation principle in communication and in this case it is in the elements of
answer. Most of the humorous riddle is created with play techniques, while the
remaining is in comparative and opposition tecniques. Second, humorous riddle
discourse utilizes language aspects including aspects of phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The use of language aspecs is closely related to
human creativity in playing with language to bring out the effect of humor on the
riddle. Third, humorous riddle discourse can serve to satirize, ridicule, confuse the
readers, disrupt the understanding, and provide entertainment.
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