Monologue humour in the Ellen Degeneres Show Season 17: a pragma stylistic study

This thesis discusses humour on monologoue performances of Ellen Degeneres in The Ellen Show season 17. The researcher conducted a pragmastylistic research with the theory of flouting maxims and figurative languages. This study aimed to investigate the type of flouting maxims and figurative languages that created the humour. There are three points disscusses in this research; (1) what are the figurative language delivered by Ellen Degeneres. (2) how figurative language flouted the maxims in creating humour delivered by Ellen Degeners. (3) to what extent the use of figurative language as flouting maxims effective to create the function of humor delivered by Ellen Degeneres. This research applied descriptive-qualitative method. By using this method, the researcher investigated and analyzed the flouting maxims and figurative languages in Ellen Degeneres monologue performances. Then, the researcher desrcibed the function of humour that created through the flouting maxims and figurative languages. The data of this research were taken from 30 videos of Ellen Degeneres monologue performances in The Ellen Show season 17. The result of this research, the researcher found nine types of figurative language that flouted all types of maxim are performed by Ellen Degeneres. Furthermore, the most dominant figurative language occured is irony and the most dominant maxim flouted is the maxim of manner. The researcher found that through the figurative language that flouts the maxim, Ellen Degeneres delivered the four functions of humour; those are Social Management, Mediation, Decommitment, and Defunctionalization. From the findings, it can be concluded that humour can be created through pragmatic and stylistic approch. In this case, Ellen Degeneres performed humour within her monologue performances through figurative languages and flouting maxims in order to attracts the attention of audiences