Abstract

This research is a study of humor in daily conversation in Karo language. This study aimed to describe the form of humor found in daily conversations in Karo language. This research used descriptive-qualitative to describe the humor that dominates daily conversations in Karo. The approach used was a pragmatic approach because the data analyzed was in the form of speech. The Data collection used a recording technique and it was taken from the daily speech of the participants. The Techniques for analyzing data were (1) data selection, (2) data grouping into tables, (3) data coding by providing code O1 for speakers, while code O2 referred to speech partners. The results of this study consisted of five techniques, namely exaggeration, literalness, definition, facetiousness and allusion. And the facetiousness technique was the greatest technique in the conversation.

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