Anam, Hairil (2012) Politeness strategies used in Freedom Writers movie. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Politeness is used by individual to build harmony and to get successful communication. We use the politeness strategy to reach our wants and goals, or to avoid conflict with others by maintaining other’s face. For running a well and smooth communication, there are four kinds of politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) which should be fulfilled by the individual: those are, bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record strategies. The purpose of this study is to identify politeness strategies which are applied in daily conversations of the main character in “Freedom Writers” movie.
This research focuses on the politeness strategies. This study is designed to find out the kinds of politeness strategies used by the main character (Erin Gruwell) and the functions of using those kinds of politeness strategies in her conversation in order make her conversation successful and reach her goal.
The research design of this study is descriptive-qualitative since the data are collected and analyzed descriptively. The data are in the written forms of the character`s utterances. The researcher writes the characters` utterances which provide types of politeness strategies because the movie provides to English subtitle. After obtaining the data, the researcher classifies them into different strategies of politeness. The next are analyzing them and making conclusion based on the theory of politeness strategies.
The result of this study is the researcher discovers how the main character (Mrs. Erin Gruwell) in this movie interacts with other characters using the politeness strategies which she look other characters which culture where they are from. So she can choose which politeness strategies are suitable to be used. So, there is relation between politeness strategies with cultural values here. By using these politeness strategies is expected in order her students become unite as being proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987), they are: Bald on Record, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness, and Off Record. The function of using Bald on Record is to achieve the maximum efficiency of their utterance. Positive Politeness is used by the main characters to satisfy the hearer’s positive face by approving or including them as friend or the member of the group. Negative Politeness is used in the situation in which the main characters have the main focus on assuming that they may be imposing and intruding on hearer’s face. Off Record is used in the condition in which the main characters have to take some pressures off of the hearer. The next researcher can investigate politeness strategies related to others movie such as comedian and horror movie. Thus it will be more interesting and challenging to investigate.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Budianto, Langgeng | ||||||
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Keywords: | Politeness Strategies; the Main Character; Freedom Writers Movie | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Nada Auliya Sarasawitri | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2023 10:42 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2023 10:42 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/48064 |
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