An Analysis of Humor in Nasreddin Hoja Short Stories

Humor is always related to the funny stories, fun and gratify. This study is conducted to analyze Nasreddin’s Funniest stories book. It is aimed to discover what types and functions of the humor can be found in this study. This method used descriptive qualitative analysis method. The material of analysis is derived from short story in the Nasreddin’s Funniest stories book by Yusup Priyasudiarja and Y. Sri Purwaningsih (2011). In this study the writer also use content or textual analysis under the scope of discourse analysis. The types of the humor in this study are joke, satire, teasing, replies to rhetorical question, clever replies, double entendres, overstatement and understatement, sarcasm and irony and the function are social management include of social control and mediation that found in the Nasreddin’s short stories. Two types of spontaneous conversational humor that is not found are pun and self- deprecation. Meanwhile, unintentional humor is also not found in the Nasreddin short stories because unintentional humor is raised from speaker’, misspellings, mispronunciations, errors in logic, and Freudian slips. The speakers create humor unintentionally so it has no function.