JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literatur.
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LANGUAGE STYLE OF HUMOR ON STAND-UP
COMEDY VIDEO
1Merry Rullyanti.
2Nurdianto 1, 2English Literature Department Faculty of Letters University of Dehasen Corresponding email: merry.
rullyanti85@gmail.
Abstract This research explained about language styles which used in stand-up comedy script brought by Chris Rock.
Chris Rock owns famous joke material that is affected by the black comedy pioneers like Richard Pryor and Redd.
He attacked the subject of much avoided by comics such as politics, race and celebrity.
Openness and honesty witch extremely bold that what makes Chris Rock as one of the most successful and a famous comic in modern comedy.
Chris Rock is known for his insulting comedian, he is also known for using satire and surreal in his joke.
Language style has several functions in its uses.
Stand-up comedy brought by Chris Rock is usually shows about the different in human right between black and white skins.
Based on the description above, the researcher decided to research language style in stand-up comedy brought by Chris Rock.
In this research the researcher uses Keraf .
to analyze the language styles.
This research is a qualitative descriptive This research source of data is stand-up comedy script with tittle Aukill the messengerAy brought by Chris Rock.
Based on research, there are 2 language styles used in Aukill the messengerAy, there are 10 rhetorical language styles and 17 figurative language styles.
Based on the data, hyperbole rhetorical language style is dominantly used in Aukill the messengerAy.
And Epithet figurative language is dominantly used The reason is because Chris Rock is still try to persuade the white skin American to be humble to black skin American and must respect to each other.
Keywords: Language Styles.
Humor.
Stand-Up Comedy INTRODUCTION Humor has been widely presented in various media forms of media such as audio and visual media.
Additionally, humor can also contain in audio visual as in stand-up comedy.
Stand-up comedy as one of the products of humor are rife discussed by the general public today can be interpreted as 'standing comedy' or Asingle comedy'.
Stand-up comedy has the specificity that jokes material brought on stage by comic in front of audience live.
There are some of the famous American comic that is Woody Allen.
George Carlin.
Margaret Cho.
Jerry Seinfield.
Eddie Murphie, and Chris Rock.
The names above are very popular among their fans of stand-up Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature.
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Language Style of Humor on Stand-up Comedy comedy because of different character of joke in each material comedy.
Chris Rock is own famous joke material that is affected by the black comedy pioneers like Richard Pryor and Redd.
He attacked the subject of much avoided by comics such as politics, race and celebrity.
Openness and honesty witch extremely bold that what makes Chris Rock as one of the most successful and a famous comic in modern comedy.
Chris Rock is known for his insulting comedian, he also known for using satire and surreal in his joke.
Because of above reasons, researcher chose Chris Rock as the target of research.
According to researchers explained above, language style can be used in many aspect, but still the function is to attract the listener.
In comedy language style is used in different type of jokes, different people will use different language style, language style will become of the characteristics of the comedian.
Then, humor emerged by Chris Rock is inseparable from the linguistic aspects of creating humor especially style of language.
The use of style language on humor often appear suddenly and appeared as a result of an individual's expertise of comedian about using the language style both orally or written to inflict funny effect about humor that performed.
Every comedian has own language style and there are no standard rules in electoral style that displayed.
A discussion of the use of language style is not a new thing.
According to Keraf .
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language style can be review from various points of views, the perspectives or opinions on language style at least can be distinguished from linguistic and non-linguistic.
In the utterance of humor in stand-up comedy video performed by Crish Rock linguistic aspect is a major construction to support his action on the stage, unique wordplay and attractive that showed by Chris Rock be able to get response laughter from the audience.
Chris Rock has its own tricks to provoke laughter language style that is used also varies in delivering the story of humor.
One style of language he uses is hyperbole.
This has become one of the weapons to support the creation of incredibly humor effect.
Considering all the reason above, the researcher selected stand-up comedy video "kill the messenger" As a research object.
Unique wordplay as a tool of humor that become concern the researcher to discover language styles are used to create humor in stand-up comedy video "kill the messenger" performed by Chris Rock.
Chris Rock is the fifth ranked as stand-up comedian according to toptens.
They are not so many black skin comedian and researcher chose Chris Rock based on the comments on the site.
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METHODS
The research design will use descriptive qualitative approach.
Tarigan .
states that descriptive is a writing that can illustrate a story and purpose of the description is to invite readers to be able to understand, feel, and enjoy the objects discussed such as mood, activity and so forth while Moleong .
qualitative research is a study used to investigate, discover, describe, and explain the quality or privilege of unexplained social influence, measured or illustrated by quantitative approach.
The data will be taken from video script including the playing time, data will be taken from sentences spoken by Chris Rock.
Researcher in collecting data will read the comedy script, then listing which words or sentences categorized as language style.
FINDINGS
Language Style Used in AuKill the MessengerAy Researcher found there are fourteen utterances use rhetorical language style.
As mentioned by Keraf .
, rhetorical language style means deviation from common construction to reach certain effect, the function can be varied such as explain, strengthen, revive non-alive object, provoke, laughs and decorate sentences.
In AuKill the MessengerAy script spoken by Chris Rock (CR), most of his comedy contains many purposes, but his main purpose is to support or ask his watcher to support Barrack Obama as US next According to main characteristic of America people where they have a right to talk free.
Chris Rock sarcasm the president directly.
Because of that, even there are more than a thousand utterances, only few utterances considered using rhetorical language style.
The detail information about rhetorical language style can be seen in table below.
Table 1.
Rhetorical Language Style in CR Script Rhetorical Language Style Apostrophe Periphrasis Prolepsis Total Total Apostrophe First finding in Chris Rock utterance can be found in data 1019, it is considered as Aposthrope.
CR said AuThat's the universal big-dick greeting Like" Hey Hey welcome to Pussonia"Ay.
Word Pussonia cannot be found in any dictionary .
eneral dictionar.
the reason is because it is not general word which used in speaking normally.
Pussonia word is a modification from word pussy.
Word Pussy can have different meaning depends on the purpose of the use, for example AudonAt act like a pussyAy, that utterance use Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature.
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In foul language, pussy means woman genital, some of American use that word to praise woman genital for example.
Aunice pussyAy, some other use this word refers to a naughty girl or call girl but some other use it as a friendly name for female So, word Pussonia can be refer to a country or a name of bar or cafy with naughty woman as a service.
In the script, the researcher only found one Apostrophe.
Periphrasis In data 183, researcher found Periphrasis utterance.
CR saidAy it's going to be hard for Barrack Obama to be President, manAy.
Periphrasis means longer sentence than usual, it is about using the different way longer to express something.
CR can use will instead of going to be.
CR uses going to be because he believes it is something really happened.
CR believes Barrack Obama way to be a president will be blocked and what CR said is true because if Barrack Obama want to be a president, he will be the first black skin president and for people who always racist to other, they will try to oppose him.
Researcher only found one Periphrasis utterance.
Prolepsis According to research, researcher found two utterances categorized as prolepsis, for example at data 118.
CR said AuThey will change all this shitAy, and at data 338 Ausoon theyAre going to start selling gas in bars.
Sentence They will change all this shit means the persons will move all.
This sentence prolepsis meaning, it is impossible to make a woman pregnant just getting close without doing nothing.
Hyperbole According to research, researcher found eight utterances categorized as hyperbole, for example at data 206.
CR said AuIt's my fucking wife, man, she's gonna kill youAy, sentence sheAs gonna kill you is hyperbolize the utterance, the purpose is to make someone afraid doing something.
Another example at data 270 when CR saidAy They know they gaining weight when too many black guys start hitting on 'emAy, the word they refer to white woman.
CR means white people believe that every time white woman get close to black people especially man, can make them pregnant.
This sentence hyperbolizes the meaning, it is impossible to make a woman pregnant just getting close without doing nothing.
Table 2.
Figurative Language Style in CR Script Figurative Language Epithet Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature.
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Nurdianto Figurative Language Synecdoche Irony Sarcasm Inuendo Total Total Epithet First finding is epithet, epithet is a descriptive literary device that describes place, a thing, a person, in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person.
In this research the researcher only found one sentence which categorized as epithet.
It can be found in data 36 when CR saidAy And I saw a bunch of white people taking pictures of meAy.
CR use white people to describe about American who have white skin, racist is a problem in America, another example about epithet sentence can be found in data-40.
CR saidAy and they're like, "Ah, chicken bone.
13 miles to the left, niggers will be there.
"Ay.
CR said word AuniggerAy, nigger is a nickname for black skin people, same as with AuyellowAy for Asian or Chinese people.
White skin American thought all black skin people come from Nigeria eve thought they know that not all black skin not from Nigeria especially when they were born and live since toddler in America.
Another example can be seen at data 82 when CR saidAy This motherfucker been telling the same story for 40 fuckin' years.
Ay.
CR uses word Authe motherfuckerAy to address someone which he doesnAt like for telling same story for 40 years.
This word is really popular word, motherfucker word is used to someone who made someone angry, someone who weak also for enemy.
There are eleven sentences categorized using epithet language style.
Synecdoche Researcher also found only one synecdoche in the script, it can be seen in data 45.
CR saidAy Big election year in the United StatesAy.
Synecdoche is a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use to represent a part.
In this case, words United States in represent all countries in America continent.
Researcher also found seventeen figurative language style, but researcher only found four kind of figurative language style in CR stand-up comedy script.
The detail about figurative language can be seen in the table Irony Researcher also found the utterance use irony in a sentence, it can be found in data 430.
CR said AuDo you know what a black dentist would have to do to Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature.
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Sarcasm Researcher found six utterance which categorized using sarcasm language Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony that mocks, ridicules, or express For example, in data 321.
CR saidAy Bush is unbelievable, man.
This guy's unbe-fucking-lievableAy.
This sentence can be considered also as irony but it goes to sarcasm because it is in verbal expression.
Normally that utterance looks like CR praise Bush, but he intends the opposite, he mock Bush for his rule as president.
The use of irony or sarcasm usually hide the true intention, negative meaning with positive sentence.
Another example for sarcasm can be found at data 847.
CR saidAy That's right.
Pussy's like Visa, accepted everywhereAy, this utterance mocks sex worker is like a visa, accepted everywhere.
As mentioned before about pussyAs meaning, sex worker same like visa, they can be accepted everywhere.
Innuendo Researcher also found one Innuendo language style in CR script, for example, in data 468, when CR saidAy You scream "nigger" and I'll raise interest ratesAy.
This utterance insult how white skin America underestimated black skin America.
There are so many privileges for white skin America but it is not for black skin, from above utterance, black skin America mostly treated as a black goat, when a group of people consist black and white skin American, and a mistake was done by white skin America, the blame would be addressed to black America, the reason is because the racist in overview everything is still high and still problem.
Dominant Language Style in AuKill the messengerAy.
Based on the finding by the researcher, researcher found that in Aukill the messengerAy stand-up comedy script brought by Chris Rock, he mostly used figurative language style, there are 17 figurative styles.
It is clear in Aukill the messengerAy, most utterances refer to a comparison between black and white skin privilege.
The different human right for black people the reason is because many utterances concludes white and black and show how white skin discriminates the black skin for example like they know they .
hite skin wome.
were going a date with black skin men will make them pregnant .
ain weight meanin.
and epithet is a figurative language which used the most.
In rhetorical language style, hyperbole is a style which have been used the most, it means CR like to say something over than normal Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature.
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Some foul language is also used to shown his deeply feeling.
Not only in Aukill the messengerAy in his other stand-up comedy with different title like AublackerAy CR said.
Auyou could be the worst mama on earthAy, this utterance is hyperbole because researcher believes that there will be the worst other than her mama.
In Figurative language style.
Epithet language style is the dominant used by CR, there reason because CR type of comedian by criticizing or mock someone even president.
The word AuniggerAy and AuBlack peopleAy also come out at his other tittle of his stand-up comedy like in AuNigger vs Black peopleAy.
DISCUSSION