Nominalize to Distance the Actor and Add Formality

From the findings and the discussion, it can be concluded that Atticus employs four politeness strategies, namely bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy and off record strategy. As a lawyer, Atticus has to be polite to everyone, especially during a trial which is considered as an important and formal occasion. The most dominant politeness strategy used by Atticus is positive politeness strategy. The positive politeness strategy is mostly used when Atticus is talking to the victim, Mayella and her father, Mr. Ewell. He uses positive politeness strategy to reduce the embarrassment toward the hearers and also to avoid conflict because he wants to dig more information about the crime for the sake of justice. Moreover, Atticus does not know Mayella and her father well. The lowest frequency of politeness strategy used is off-record strategy. Atticus uses off-record strategy when talking to Tom Robinson, the defendant and Mayella, the victim. The reason is that Atticus does not know them well, especially Tom, so that he needs to avoid imposition to the hearers and save their face. 88

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

In this chapter, there are two main parts; they are conclusion and suggestions. The conclusion part presents the summary of the findings and discussion which are related to the objectives of the research. The suggestions part contains the suggestions that are addressed to future researchers and language learners.

A. Conclusion

The first conclusion of the research is about the type of politeness strategy that Atticus uses during the trial. Atticus uses all types of politeness strategy during the trial, namely bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy and off record strategy. From the data, there are 65 data about politeness strategies used by Atticus during the trial. They are divided into four types of politeness strategies; first, Bald on Record strategy has 24 data or 36.92, Positive Politeness Strategy has 26 data or 40, Negative Politeness strategy has 8 data or 12.31, and Off Record strategy has