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politeness strategies, described by Brown and Levinson 1987, p. 92 to face “threatening face”. They are Bald-On Record, Negative Politeness, Positive
Politeness, and Off-record. Those types of politeness are develop in order to save
the hearer’s face. The main concern in this research is the characters’ utterances
described as a part of politeness strategies. This research will present the speaking
politeness of the characters of Sydney White movie. 3.
Character
A character is described by Abrams 1999, p. 32 as the persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as
being endowed with particular moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons say and their distinctive ways of saying it
—the dialogue and from what they do
—the action. The term character in this research refers to individual who describes her or his
own behavior’s qualities, traits, and motivations.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
The researcher provides two parts in this section. The first part is the theoretical description. The second part is the theoretical framework. Some
theories are needed as a basic requirement to solve the problem statements of the research. The theories discussed in this chapter are sociolinguistics, pragmatics,
conversational analysis CA, speech acts, context, adjacency pair, and politeness strategy. In the first part, the research will discuss all the theories. Then, in the
second part, the theoretical framework is used by the researcher to synthesize all the theories elaborated in the theoretical description in order to correlate the
theories to the current research.
A. Theoretical Description
The researcher presents seven parts, namely are sociolinguistics, pragmatics, conversational analysis CA, speech acts, context, adjacency pair,
and politeness strategy. Sociolinguistics is presented to make a clear understanding of the topic discussed. Pragmatics is necessary because it is related
to the relation between language and context. So, it will deal with the utterance of Sydney White
movie’s characters. Conversational analysis is important since it is a part of sociolinguistics which studies conversation. It will closely relate to the
