a text analysis Suwarno, Ammy Maryati Primary Author mixed material bibliography Bandung Magister Psikologi 2011 en English

xv, 124 hlm. ; il. ; 29 cm This thesis .is entitled "Transitivity in FHM.com Daily Jokes: a Text Analysis". The objectives of this study are to find out the factors that create humor in the punch lines of jokes and to find out the dominant process and participant in the data and their roles in making the punch lines funny. The data are taken from FHM on-line magazine. In this research, the present writer applied the functional grammar theory; mainly the transitivity of clause as representation. In order to get the objectives of this study, the present writer used some theories related to language, jokes, and punch lines. The qualitative method is applied in this thesis. The procedures of data collecting include seeking, selecting, reading and identifying the data. Then, the data were categorized based on their transitivity factor that creates the humor. The absence of circumstance, which is the main transitivity factor that creates the humor in the punchlines, is what the analysis has found. Other findings are that the dominant process in the data is the material process, the dominant participant is the Goal, and the dominant circumstance is the cause. Suwarno, Ammy Maryati transitivity in fhm.com daily jokes 827 suw t Perpustakaan Universitas Padjadjaran Kementerian Riset Teknologi dan Pendidikan Tinggi 827 suw t/R.18.241 0100111070001 Perpustakaan Pusat (REF.18.241) 827 suw t/R.18.241 11108 2017-04-01 15:44:34 2018-02-23 10:21:20 machine generated