Septiawan, Ikmal Arif (2012) Politeness strategies used by the main characters of “Grown Ups” movie. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
People need to interact with each other in this life. In order to reach harmony in term of communication, keeping the feeling of the hearer must be paid attention. Politeness strategy is used to minimize or avoid the FTA (Face Threatening Acts) delivered by the speaker to the hearer. Politeness phenomenon appears in the dialogues of a 2010 comedy movie entitled Grown Ups. The researcher intends to investigate politeness strategies used by the main characters, whose role is as best friend, in their communication.
This research has two objectives. Since the researcher intends to investigate on the main characters of Grown Ups movie communication, the two objectives aimed are; to identify the types of politeness strategies used by the main characters of Grown Ups movie and to describe the functions of politeness strategies used by the main characters of Grown Ups movie.
The researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the research design. Therefore, the main instrument of this research is the researcher himself. Based on Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness strategy, the researcher analyzes the data descriptively by using words. The data are the utterances that contain politeness strategies as proposed by Brown and Levinson and that are said by and among the five main characters namely Lenny Feder, Eric Lamonsoff, Kurt McKenzie, Marcus Higgins, and Rob Hillard only. In analyzing the data, firstly the researcher categorizes the data according politeness strategy types as propose by Brown and Levinson. Secondly, the researcher gives some examples that can represent the whole data to be analyzed. The researcher also describes t he context of the data analyzed to make the readers easier to understand it. The last, the researcher analyzes the data by using theory of politeness strategies as proposed by Brown and Levinson. Those are bald on-record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record.
After analyzing the data, the result shows that all four types of politeness strategies are applied though not all strategies are used. Bald on-record is used when the speaker wants to say something important without any redress, t o ask the hearer to do something, to tease the hearer, to deliver a joke, to say something rude, to boast his power. Positive politeness is used when the main characters show the closeness between them while delivering the FTA. Negative politeness is used when the main characters express their awareness of the hearer’s freedom. Off record is used when the speaker tries to make the hearer get another interpretation from the FTA being delivered.
The researcher hopes this research can help the readers, especially English Department students, to understand more about politeness strategy as proposed by Brown and Levinson and can lead the next researchers who are interested in the same field. To expand the area of investigation, it is suggested to the next researchers to research on the different object or movie’s genre and to use other theories of politeness strategy.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Sari, Rina | ||||||
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Keywords: | Politeness strategies; Bald on-Record; Positive Politeness; Negative Politeness; Off Record; Grown Ups; Main Characters | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Nada Auliya Sarasawitri | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2023 13:26 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2023 13:26 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/48254 |
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