VARIOUS TYPES OF CONTRADICTION IN JAVANESE CARTOON DISCOURSES

Abstract

Many experts state that the essence of humorous discourse is laid on the contradiction of ideas between aggression components and apprehension components. However, what types of contradiction generally opposed by the jocular text creators (comedians, cartoonist, clowns, etc.) have not been satisfactorily discovered by humor researchers. Accordingly, this paper aims to reveal various types of contradictions exploited by the creators in creating their humorous discourses. This study will focus its attention on contradictions found in Javanese cartoons published in Djaka Lodang, one among small number of Javanese Magazines still published until recently in Javanese speaking community. A careful investigation on the contradictions of the cartoon discourses placed in this Javanese magazine shows that there are various contradictions opposed by the Javanese cartoonists in creating their jocular texts. Those contradictions are between real and unreal matter, richness and poverty, obscene an no-obscene matter, comfort and discomfort, ease and difficulty, common and uncommonness, frightening and not frightening matter, honesty and immorality, determining and undetermining matter, beauty and ugliness, legality and illegality, etc.

Keywords: contradiction, humor, discourse, cartoon