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The dialogue above showed that Tyler employed off record strategy 15, be incomplete. Tyler did not finish her utterances. He seemed confuse about it.
Dialogue 19 Professor Carlton
: Ms. Witch burn, if you win another term as president, what will you do differently?
Rachel : Why fix what isnt broken? This has been a great year
for the university and I am proud to be breaking ground on the Greek Life Center very soon.
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The conversation happened in the morning at Southern Atlantic University. The presidential debate was about to begin. Professor Carlton as the
moderator asked Sydney and Rachel as the candidates to report to the stage. However, Sydney did not come yet. Realizing that Sydney had not come to the
stage, Tyler tried to look for her in the library. He gently tried to make Sydney woke up because she had to come to attend the presidential debate soon unless she
would miss a big chance of being a student council president. Fortunately, she woke up and immediately went to the stage. The moderator began the presidential
debate and for the first question was intended to Rachel. The dialogue above showed that Rachel employed off record strategy 10,
use rhetorical question. Rhetorical question is a sentence in the grammatical form of a question which is not asked in order to request information or to invite to
reply but to achieve a greater expressive force than a direct assertion. In Dialogue 19, Rachel did not need an answer from the Professor Carlton or audiences. Her
saying was only for her opening in order to get attention from the audiences.
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From the analysis of politeness strategies’ utterances, the researcher found four politeness strategies uttered by the characters. The researcher finally got
fixed data as shown in the Table 5.0 below.
Table 5.0. The form of Data Sheet for Politeness Strategies in Having Adjacency Pairs Found in the Data by the Characters in the Movie
Sydney White.
No. Politeness strategies
Numbers of data 1.
Bald-on Record 34
2. Positive Politeness
67 3.
Negative Politeness 56
4. Off Record
14 Total
171 See in the Appendix B
From the collect data, there were 171 data which contained politeness strategies founded in the film. From those data, the researcher found that there
were four types of politeness strategies employed by the characters in that film. The detail information can be seen in the Table 5.0 above. They were 34
utterances used off record politeness strategy, 67 utterances used positive politeness, 56 utterances used negative politeness, and 14 utterances used off
record politeness strategy.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter consists of three sections, namely the conclusions, implications, and recommendations. The first section summarizes the research
findings, the second one presents the involvement of the study in education, and the third gives the recommendations which consists of recommendations for the
English learners, English lecturers, and future researchers.
A. Conclusions
The last chapter of this research presents some conclusions that can be formulated based on the result of the research result and discussion about the
types of adjacency pairs and the politeness strategies in Chapter IV. There are two research questions in this research: 1 Which adjacency
pairs are used by the characters in the movie Sydney White?? And 2 How are
politeness strategies employed in having adjacency pairs among the characters? There are two objectives of this research. The first objective is to find out
the adjacency pairs which are used by the characters in the movie entitled Sydney White.
The second objective is to identify how politeness strategies are employed in having adjacency pairs among the characters. The data were taken from
American teenage movie entitled Sydney White.
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The answer to the first research question, the research results can be seen on Table 4.0 in Chapter IV. The adjacency pairs which were shown by the
characters in the movie Sydney White were namely question-answernon-answer, request-acceptancerefusal, offer or invitation- acceptancerefusal, assessment-
agreementdisagreement, blame-denialadmission, greeting-greeting, summons- answer, and apology-acceptancerefusal. There were eight types of adjacency
pairs were used by the characters in the movie. There were 182 utterances discovered from 8 types of adjacency pairs. Of those 182 data found, 92 pairs
belonged to question-answernon-answer type, 29 pairs belonged to request- acceptancerefusal type, 12 pairs belonged to offer or invitation-
acceptancerefusal type, 24 pairs belonged to assessment-agreementdisagreement type, 1 pairs belonged to blame-denialadmission type, 16 pairs belonged to
greeting-greeting type, 4 pairs belonged to summons-answer type, and 4 pairs belonged to apology-acceptancerefusal type. In addition, among 182 data in the
findings, both preferred and dispreferred second turns can be found in the data. Regarding the second research question,
the research results can be seen on Table 5.0 in Chapter IV. The characters in the movie employed the types of
adjacency pairs by using four types of politeness strategies, namely Bald-on- record direct, Positive politeness, Negative politeness, and Off-record indirect.
There were 171 utterances discovered from 4 types of politeness strategies in having adjacency pairs found in the data by the characters in the movie Sydney
White. There were 34 utterances which were employed by using bald on record
strategy Brown Levinson, 1987, p. 95. Applying this strategy, the speaker
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does in direct way by using imperative sentence in high tone and does not attempt to minimize the threat on hearer’s face. This strategy is used by the speaker when
maximum efficiency is more important and usually is known by both speaker and the hearer. There were 67 utterances which were employed by using positive
politeness strategy Brown Levinson, 1987, p. 103-129. This strategy provides an attempt to minimize th
e damage to the hearer’s face so that they are used to make the hearer feel good about himself and his possessions. In this strategy,
there are 15 sub strategies. There were 56 utterances which were employed by using negative politeness strategy Brown Levinson, 1987, p. 132-211. This
strategy presumes that the speaker will be imposing on the listener. In this strategy, there are 10 sub strategies. There were 14 utterances which were
employed by using off record strategy Brown Levinson, 1987, p. 211-227. This strategy is likely to call as an indirect strategy. It indicates that if the speakers
want to avoid their responsibility of doing FTAs, they can employ the strategy and let the addressees interpret and the intended message. There are 15 sub strategies
in the off record strategy.
B. Implications
English subject is one of subjects that must be taught as a compulsory subject at school. Teachers play important role to teach the materials contained in
the English subject. Therefore, as English teachers in the future, they are important not only to teach the four standards of competence or the four language
skills listening, reading, speaking, and writing but also the ethical values
