Language as human communication is essential to convey messages from one person to another.

This requires collaboration and cooperation from both parties, the speaker(sender) and the addressee (receiver) so that the message can be transferred successfully.

Transferring message

This study would consider Dilbert comic strips in the following ways: a. Are the messages from the speaker transferred successfully to the addressee between the characters in the comic strips of Dilbert? b. What are the causes of the unsuccessfulness or successfulness of communication based on conversation in the Dilbert comic strip?

2.1 successful communication The successful communication can be achieved when we obey Cooperative Principle P.H Grice (1975) that is Make your contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by accepted purpose of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.

1) maxim of relevant : Make contribution as relevance as its requires to the topic being discussed 2) maxim of quality :do not give wrong and untruthful contribution, and do not say we believe to be false or true with lack of adequate evidence

3) maxim of manner: avoid obscurity, avoid ambiguity, be brief, be orderly

4) maxim of quantity: Make your contribution as informative as is required it should not be less informative or more informative,

2.2 Unsuccessful communication

MATERIAL

conversation between characters on Dilbert comic strips

SUBJECT

Dilbert comic strips published from may 2010 until April 2011 The approach used in this study will be descriptive qualitative approach.

APPROACH

4.1 successful communication 4.1.1 17th august 2010 edition

4.2 Unsuccessful communication 4.2.1 Irrelevance contribution

(11th June 2010 edition)

4.2.2 Untruthful contribution

(19th July 2010 edition)

4.2.3 Ambiguous contribution

(27th march 2011 edition)

4.2.4 overstatement
(2nd February 2011 edition)

Most of communication in Dilbert comic strips are found to be unsuccessful. The cause of unsuccessfulness communications in Dilbert comic strips because they flout the principle of maxim. The cause of successfulness communications in Dilbert comic strips because the characters on hold the cooperative attitude

The unsuccessfulness communication on Dilbert comic strips also create satirical and sarcastic humor effect.