An Analysis of Politeness Strategies in Movie Journey 2 the Mysterious Island

ABSTRACT

Emha, Luthfi Arif Setiawan. 2013. An Analysis of Politeness Strategies in Movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island on January 19th, 2012. Skripsi, English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (1) Ahdi Riyono, S.S, M.Hum., (2) Drs. H. Muh. Syafei, M.Pd.

Key words: Politeness Strategies, Movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island


One of significant parts of human communication is politeness. Politeness is very valuable for entire people in the world because politeness can lead us to have certain attitude with others. Good interaction can be created by using communicative language. People should know the appropriateness of variety of language use. If a speaker says something that represents a threat to another individual’s expectations regarding self-image, it is described as a face threatening acts. Furthermore, Brown and Levinson (1987) suggest politeness as a compensation action taken to counter-balance the disruptive effect of face-threatening acts (FTAs). Politeness strategies also have various kinds. They are bald on record, off record indirect, positive politeness and negative politeness.

This research has two objectives such as: (i) To find out bald on record and off record strategies in movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. (ii) To find out negative and positive politeness in movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

Pragmatics analysis and descriptive qualitative are applied to this research design in order to support the objectives. Moreover, politeness strategies are the data. While, transcript text in movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is used as data source. This analysis research applied Brown and Levisohn’s theory.

According to data finding and analysis, there were 295 utterances delivered by the characters that employ politeness strategies found in movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. They are 65 utterances of bald on record, 20 utterances of off record indirect strategy, 146 utterance of positive politeness and 64 utterances of negative politeness. The result showed that the characters of movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is categorized as polite people because they use positive politeness more which present close relationship between them.

Based on the result above, I suggest the English lecturer should emphasize pragmatic materials especially politeness as the valuable lecture not only in theoretical but also in practical meaning. Moreover, I encourage the students to differ the way to deliver their wants appropriately through applying politeness. For the readers, it is so important to be polite person because through being polite the hearer will feel comfortable with our behaviors and utterance, so it can create an effective communication between the speaker and the hearer.

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