Institusion
Universitas Bung Hatta
Author
Thesya, Ayudia Decimika
Yusrita, Yanti
Al, Azwad Fauzan
Subject
PR English literature
Datestamp
2020-09-14 03:45:47
Abstract :
Politeness is one of the way a person interacts with others by paying attention to
politeness strategies to create the efficient, non-antagonitics, and mutually
cooperative exchange of idea, feelings, and options in accordance with the social
norms where the interaction occurs and usually consider to the faces of the
interacting parties. The purpose of this research is to describe about negative
politeness strategies based on theory Brown and Levinson (1987). Negative
politeness strategies are used to convey a message to save the hearer?s face when
face threatening acts are inevitable desire. The method used in this study is
qualitative method. Qualitative research is a research strategy that indicates the
relationship between theory and research a usually emphasizes on how theories were
generated by using word not numeric based on theory Bryman and Bell (2007). Data
in this study were taken on the movie series of The Chronicles of Narnia movie in
terms of utterances that express the negative politeness strategies. This research
discussed about the negative politeness strategies used by the actors and the markers
used to show the negative politeness strategies in the movie series of The Chronicles
of Narnia movie. From the data analysis, the writer found eight strategies of negative
politeness. They are: (1) be conventionally indirect, (2) question hedges, (3)
minimize the imposition, (4) give deference, (5) apologize, (6) state the FTA as
general rule, (7) nominalize, and (8) go on record. Then the writer also finds the
markers used to show the negative politeness strategies that function to maximize the
negative politeness strategies of to avoid Face Threatening Acts, such as; will you,
please, pretty please. From this study, the negative politeness strategies mostly used
by the actors were give deference strategy, apologize strategy, and go on record
strategy with different markers which maximize the negative politeness strategies.
Keyword: politeness strategies, negative politeness strategies, context