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Language as human communication isessential to convey messages from oneperson to another.
This requires collaboration and cooperationfrom both parties, the speaker(sender) andthe addressee (receiver) so that the message
can be transferred successfully.
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This study would consider Dilbert comic strips inthe following ways:
a. Are the messages from the speaker transferred
successfully to the addressee between thecharacters in the comic strips of Dilbert?
b. What are the causes of the unsuccessfulness or
successfulness of communication based onconversation in the Dilbert comic strip?
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2.1 successful communication
The successful communication can be
achieved when we obey Cooperative Principle P.H Grice (1975) that is Make your
contribution such as is required, at the stage
at which it occurs, by accepted purpose of thetalk exchange in which you are engaged.
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1) maxim of relevant : Make contribution asrelevance as its requires to the topic beingdiscussed
2) maxim of quality :do not give wrong anduntruthful contribution, and do not say webelieve to be false or true with lack of
adequate evidence
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3) maxim of manner: avoid obscurity, avoid
ambiguity, be brief, be orderly
4) maxim of quantity: Make your contributionas informative as is required it should not beless informative or more informative,
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2.2 Unsuccessful communication
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MATERIAL conversation between characters on Dilbert
comic strips
SUBJECT Dilbert comic strips published from may
2010 until April 2011
APPROACH
The approach used in this study will bedescriptive qualitative approach.
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4.2 Unsuccessful communication 4.2.1 Irrelevance contribution (11th June 2010 edition)
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4.2.2 Untruthful contribution (19th July 2010 edition)
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4.2.3 Ambiguous contribution (27th march 2011 edition)
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4.2.4 overstatement (2nd February 2011 edition)
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Most of communication in Dilbert comic strips arefound to be unsuccessful.
The cause of unsuccessfulness communications inDilbert comic strips because they flout the principle
of maxim.
The cause of successfulness communications inDilbert comic strips because the characters on holdthe cooperative attitude
The unsuccessfulness communication on Dilbertcomic strips also create satirical and sarcastic humoreffect.