The Use of Negative Politeness by Jules Ostin to Ben Whittaker

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CHAPTER III CONCLUSION, IMPLICATION, AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter consists of three parts namely conclusion, implication and recommendation. Conclusion deals with the summary of the study. Implication deals with implication in language teaching and learning. Recommendation consists of input for future researchers and English learners to conduct further studies on the same topic.

A. Conclusion

The study is conducted to analyse the use of politeness strategies by the main characters of The Intern movie, Jules Ostin and Ben Whitaker. It aims especially to analyse the four politeness strategies, namely Bald-on Record, Negative Politeness, Positive Politeness, and Off-Record, proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987. Based on the data found, both main characters of The Intern movie use all four politeness strategies. The most frequent strategy used by Jules and Ben is Positive Politeness. Both of the characters acknowledge the hearer’s Positive Face wants to maintain their relationship. There are some other factors affected the use of Politeness Strategies by Ben Whittaker and Jules Ostin, such as gender, age, and power relation. However, the limitation of this paper is to discuss the use of Politeness Strategies by Ben Whittaker and Jules Ostin in The Intern movie as proposed by Brown and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 20 Levinson. Thus, the factors that affected the use of Politeness Strategies are not going to be discussed.

B. Implication

Learning a language does not merely mean learning the grammar structure of the language, but also learning how language is used in the society. Politeness is one of the things that need to be learned when someone learns a language, because politeness is essential in language use in society. Based on the conclusion of the study, Positive Politeness strategy is the most frequent politeness strategies used by Ben Whittaker and Jules Ostin. Jules is Ben’s boss, but they are also friends. Positive Politeness is good to maintain relationship between friends, family, and co-workers. By applying Positive Politeness, someone can make another person feel accepted and feel good about themselves. For example by saying,” I’m feeling really hungry. Let’s stop for a bite,” the speaker wants to stop and have something to eat and wants to get the hearer to agree to do this. The speaker gets what he wants and also he can maintain the hearer’s positive face by including both speaker and the hearer in the activity. It makes the hearer feel accepted and feel good about themselves. So, Positive Politeness should be frequently applied in the conversation to maintain relationships between friends, family, and co-workers.