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Discovering The Jokes of Women as sexual object in TV situation comedy show friends / Loemongga

Loemongga (2015) Discovering The Jokes of Women as sexual object in TV situation comedy show friends / Loemongga. Diploma thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.

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ABSTRACT Loemongga. 2015. Discovering The Jokes of Women as Sexual Object in TV Situation Comedy Show Friends. Thesis. English Department Faculty of Letters State University of Malang. Advisor (I) Inayatul Fariha S.S. M.A. (II) Drs. Kukuh Prayitno S. M.A. Keywords Gender Stereotyping Humor Joke Sexual Object Media has brought many influences into our daily live. This influence may consciously or not has constructed the reason of the action of common society nowadays. One of the influences is telling about gender discourse. This discourse causes our society willingly or not acts like what they do now they act like what they are expected as men or women. It shows how strong the media in giving its influence to the society since society nowadays is claimed as the media consumer. This research purposes to give the real proof of gender stereotyping of women as sexual object that is inserted through the jokes in the serial Friends implicitly. The jokes are chosen as the content of this study because it seems like everybody loves jokes. Moreover it is represented through serial Friends which has been popular worldwide. It signifies that the content of Friends has given contribution in constructing the way people deliver their jokes. Much further this serial has given its contribution in constructing people mindset about gender since its jokes also contains gender discourse. The data of this research are focused in how gender stereotyping is presented through the jokes of Friends. The researcher analyzes the dialogues that are considered as jokes that contain the issue of gender stereotyping of women as sexual object. A joke itself is considered as a joke if it includes two things that become the characteristics of jokes which are called as set-up and punch line. These jokes are chosen from 5 random episodes out of 17 episodes in the last season of Friends. The choosing of the jokes from the dialogues in the last season are based on the consideration that the last season is the conclusion of whole part of the story so if it contains the issue of gender stereotyping of women as sexual object then it proves that Friends really presents an intention of delivering particular issue. The result of this research shows that there are some evidences in Friends jokes content that are considered to contain the gender discourse of women as sexual object. They are represented through the jokes that the common people may consider as the normal daily jokes. If only people were willing to analyze it further they will find how their common daily jokes actually contains a lot of contribution of constructing people ideology of power domination in seeing gender discourse. It signifies that our people are still taking everything for granted. They still are not aware of what may change if they can be a little bit critical in seeing something. Based on this research it is expected that people will be more selective and critical in facing things that are considered trifling. People should be smart and do not just act take it for granted anymore. Nowadays everything becomes more complicated many propagandas out there. The researcher also expects that the next researcher can do research about the possibilities that may happen if people do the smart act in seeing the things surround them.

Item Type: Thesis (Diploma)
Subjects: ?? ??
Divisions: Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S1 Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
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Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2015 04:29
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 03:00
URI: http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/244841

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