HUMOR IN RESEARCH PROPOSAL SEMINAR: BRINGING PLURILINGUALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT

Abstract

Plurilingualism practices in Indonesia are unique for its richness of local-vernacular linguistics capitals. The purpose of this study is bringing conversational jokes where the local-vernacular languages used by the speakers in an English Language Study Graduate Program exist. This study employed descriptive qualitative method. The data was analyzed through discourse analysis. The focus is exploring the sense of humor performed by advisor and examiner in research seminar and to find out the intentions of humor performed by lecturers as examiners or supervisors in research seminar. As results, the types of humor that emerged during the observation are teasing and banter. This study is an important contribution for the study of speech act in the case of conversational jokes in research proposal seminar