9 The data of this research are the conversation between the host and his guest
in Talk Indonesia TV Talk show. It consists of the utterances of the host and his guests. The host utterances were chosen to be analyzed because of the important role
of the host in managing his show by asking and giving comment or feedback. The writer then analyzed the utterances in the perspective of politeness strategies by
Brown and Levinson 1987. Moreover, the guests’ utterances were also taken to be analyzed because sometimes they create face threatening acts against their own face.
This research is descriptive qualitative research since it is used the data that comes from the phenomena happened in the society.
1.6 Definitions of Key Terms
1. Face
Brown and Levinson 1987: 61 stated that face is something that is emotionally invested, and that can be lost, maintained, or enhanced, and must
be constantly attended to in interaction. There are two kinds of face, positive and negative face.
2. FTA
The threatening for face is called face threatening acts FTA. 3.
Politeness strategies There are five politeness strategies by Brown and Levinson 1987, namely
bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record
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Social distance Brown and Levinson 1987 states that social distance refers to the degree of
social familiarity of the two people
5. Relative Power
Brown and Levinson 1987 states that relative power is the degree to which
H can impose his own plans and face to S
6. Rank of imposition
Brown and Levinson 1987: 77 defined imposition as a culturally and situationally defined ranking of impositions by the degree to which they are
considered to interfere with an agents wants of self-determination or approval his negative- and positive-face wants.
1.7 Organization of the Study
This thesis is systematically divided into five chapters. In order to make this research easy to follow, the writer organizes it as follows:
Chapter I: Introduction . It includes background of study, which discussed
about the fact, purpose of the study, scope of the study, research method, underlying theories, and the organization of writing.
Chapter II: Review of the Literatures. It discusses about previous studies,
pragmatics, politeness, the concept of face, the sociological variables, and the politeness strategies.
