Humor: The Other Way of Delivering Message

Abstract

Humor can be regarded as one of the unique ways of communicating ideas and delivering messages. It can be easily found in the daily use of language in various contexts and situations. This short writing is an attempt to analyze humor to find the systems or patterns of humor of human language. The data for this study are taken from some collections of humor in the Indonesian and local languages, recorded or noted from the field. The result of the analysis indicates that humor is created by colliding with two opposite events or logic. Humor is also constructed by using collocation, the figure of speech, modification of the structure of language. In terms of sense, humor can be categorized as soft and hard senses of humor.