Uptown Girls That cars parked in a no- parking area.
politeness, negative politeness, and off record. In realizing those politeness strategies, the main characters utilize their own sub-strategies: bald on record is
realized by showing disagreement, giving advice, requesting, warning, and using imperative form: positive politeness by claiming common ground, conveying that
S and H are cooperators and fulfilling H’s wants for some X: negative politeness by being indirect, not presuming, not coercing H, communi
cating S’s want to not impinge on H, and redressing: off record by inviting conversational implicature
and being vague. This research is different from the one currently being conducted by the
researcher. Mifta only focused on politeness strategies. On the contrary, this research focuses on politeness strategies and politeness principles.
Another study deals with politeness was done in a thesis research by Dewinta Laksmi entitled Politeness Principles Applied by the Main Characters in Having
Adjacency Pairs as Reflected in the Movie
Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
She analyzed the types of adjacency pair uttered by the main character, describe the
second turns applied by the main characters, and explain politeness principles applied in the dispreferred second turns chosen by the main characters in the
movie
Elizabeth: the golden age
. The findings of this research show that only fourteen types of adjacency
pairs out of nineteen based on the theories found and applied by the main characters. There are six types of the dispreferred second turns which are mostly
used by the main characters because of the need of sufficient information. From
the selected dispreferred second turns, there are five out of six politeness principles applied by the main characters.
This research is totally different from the one currently being conducted by the researcher because in this research, the researcher tries to observe not only the
politeness principles but also politeness strategies. The politeness strategies are analyzed based on Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory and the politeness
principles are based on Leech’s theory in Watts 2003.