A Pragmatics Analysis of Sarcastic Utterances on Homeland – Pilot TV Series Script

This research is concerning with how sarcasm is used on TV Series entitled Homeland-Pilot. The objective of this study is to describe the illocutionary acts that conducted in the sarcastic utterances, the second is to explain the implicature of the sarcastic utterances, and the Last is to define what maxim that violated on the sarcastic utterances. This data belongs to qualitative research that used primary data from the script conversation on the TV Series. There are 36 data as the primary data source. Meanwhile, other references such as books, journal and previous study are the secondary data source. There are 3 results found from this research. First, 13 data found the illocution of sarcastic utterance conducted at this TV series, 8 data found to explain the implicature of the sarcastic utterance. The last, 11 data found to define what maxim is violated in this TV Serie