Focus of the Research Research Questions Objectives of the Research Significances of the Research
misunderstanding between speaker and hearer, especially if they are not close friends.
As Keith Allan said in Kunjana Rahadi’s book, “speaking to others is a social activity, and like other social activities e.g. dancing, playing in an
orchestra, playing cards or football it can only happen if the people involved” Rahadi 52, and then he said “being cooperative is being polite mostly”, it
means that good cooperation in speaking activity can be done by being polite to others. There are two theories that explain about politeness. The first is Brown
and Levinson who focuses their attention on the linguistic strategies that speakers follow in order to save or maintain face, i.e their public image, such as
indirectness, hedges, questions, and in group identity. The second is the theory that the researcher uses for this study, Leech’s theory of six maxims of politeness.
The six maxims are tact maxim, generosity maxim, agreement maxim, modesty maxim and approbation maxim.
According to the explanation, the researcher has a potential to violate politeness maxims, which is supported by the context of the conversation and
social distance between the characters in the movie. So that, this study will discuss about slang language used in Limitless movie script and relate it to
politeness maxims. Moreover, the researcher uses the theory of politeness maxims by Leech for this research.