An analysis on the types of humor in Nova Riyanti Yusufs 30 Hari Mencari Cinta

ABSTRACT

Humor is one of the potential ways to convey the intended message of the author and to catch the readers interest. One of the reasons is the readers will more enjoy what the author has to say if it is presented in humor than in serious manner. More importantly, if the author must present the controversial ideas to less than open minds, humor will enable those ideas to be presented in a non-threathening manner.

The novel of 30 Hari Mencari Cinta is a very representative novel to be involved to the above illustration because 30 Hari Mencari Cinta presents a simple and easily understood story. With a fresh, spontaneous, and funny story, the author hardly ever tells to the readers its real message directly. So, it is not surprising anymore if this novel becomes one of the most wanted novels.

The objection of this study is trying to analyze the types of humor and the way how humors are expressed in Nova Riyanti Yusufs 30 Hari Mencari Cinta. The methode of this study uses descriptive qualitative because the researcher tries to describe the phenomenon of the object research descriptively. And the major data source of this research is a novel of 30 Hari Mencari Cinta which is written by Nova Riyanti Yusuf.

In analyzing the data, the researcher applies some ways. First, reading the data to gain a perfect understanding. Second, categorizing the data into some classifications. And the third, discussing and analyzing each category based on the
classification that refers to the research problems and research objectives.

From the analysis, it can be found that there are ten types of humor. They are illustrative anecdote, antonimism epigram, blue humor, exaggerism, joke/gag, nonsensism, puns, recovery, satire, and situational humor. In addition, those humors can be expressed in many styles and manners. They are spontaneous, intentional and unintentional, annoyed, serious, perfunctory, a little and stronger cynical intonation, smooth intonation manners and so on.