Research Article
The Study of Gender Humor Discourse in ‘Friends’ Comedy Series
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.20-9-2022.2324792, author={Lailan Syafrina Dewi and Anni Pulungan and Widya Andayani}, title={The Study of Gender Humor Discourse in ‘Friends’ Comedy Series}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership, AISTEEL 2022, 20 September 2022, Medan, North Sumatera Province, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={AISTEEL}, year={2022}, month={12}, keywords={gender humor discourse comedy series}, doi={10.4108/eai.20-9-2022.2324792} }- Lailan Syafrina Dewi
Anni Pulungan
Widya Andayani
Year: 2022
The Study of Gender Humor Discourse in ‘Friends’ Comedy Series
AISTEEL
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-9-2022.2324792
Abstract
The study focuses on the gender humor discourse in the comedy series "Friends". The study's objective was to classify the gender humors present in the comedy series "Friends". Critical discourse analysis and a qualitative descriptive methodology were both used in the study. The study's data comes from gender humor discourse-heavy scripts from the television sitcom "Friends". Martin et al.(2003)'s classification of gender humor types was employed in the study. The four categories of humor identified by Martin et al. are affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and selfdefeating. According to the study's findings, 26 clauses of various humor types were identified, including: eight (31%) types were self-defeating.Self-defeating types appeared frequently in the 'Friends' comedy series, with seven aggressive types (27%) and six affiliative types (23%) and five self-enhancing different types (19%).