Politeness strategies used by the main characters in “Transformers: Age of Extinction” movie

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Language has a crucial role in a human life’s communication since it functions as a media tool to make interaction. One way to establish a meaningful conversation in society is by applying politeness. Behaving politely does not merely depend on how good a member in a society is, but also how to behave politely in daily conversation. This study is about politeness strategies used by the main characters in “Transformers : Age of Extinction Movie. The problems of the study are (1) what kinds of politeness used by the main characters in “ Transformers : Age of Extinction “ movie, and (2) which politeness strategies are mostly used by the main characters in “ Transformers : Age of Extinction” movie.

This study used a qualitative approach specifically using document analysis. The writer analyzed the utterances of the main characters taken from the script of Transformers : Age of Extinction movie and the writer also adopted politeness strategy’s theory proposed by Brown & Levinson (1987).

The study reveals that Cade Yeager and Tessa performs all kinds of politeness strategies in conversation, they are positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, bald-on record strategy, and off-record strategy. There are 30 utterances of Cade Yeager and Tessa which contain politeness strategy from 20 times of conversation in movie. Bald on record strategy is the most frequently used by Cade Yeager and Tessa are (10). The second is positive politeness ( 9 ), the third is negative politeness ( 7), and in off record strategy (0).

Cade Yeager and Tessa mostly used Bald on-record strategy to minimize the hearer face, and the speaker using this sentence to make the hearer embarrass, because between the speaker and the hearer still have a close relationship. The writer also suggests next researcher use another literary work.