CHAPTER IV THE ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS OF POLITENESS STRATEGY USED
BY MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERS OF TWILIGHT MOVIE
The following were taken from Twilight movie script and chosen from several scenes. There are 19 scenes containing 205 numbered utterances of all
characters involved in the scenes. However, the data analyzed for the using of politeness strategy are just the bold ones. The amount of data which were
analyzed is 64, i.e. 32 of male’s utterances and 32 of female’s utterances.
4.1 The Analysis
SCENE 13: INT. HIGH SCHOOL - A SERIES OF SHOTS Bella never without her IPOD makes her way thru kids who stare openly; a few
brave ones say hi. They’re all talking about her. This is her hell. Bella wanders the walkways looking for room numbers, lost. Constant stares at Bella, the
outsider... SERIES ENDS when a sweet, nerd-cute, motor mouth boy, ERIC, appears in her path.
1. ERIC: You’re Isabella Swan, the new girl. Hi. I’m Eric. The eyes and ears of
this place. Anything you need. Tour guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on.
2. BELLA: I’m kind of the “suffer in silence” type. NPS
3. ERIC: Good headline for your feature - I’m on the paper, and you’re news,
baby, front page.
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4. BELLA: I -- no, I’m not news -- I’m, seriously, not at all. ORIS
5. ERIC: Whoa, chillax. No feature.
6. BELLA: relieved Would you mind just pointing me toward Mr. Varner’s class? NPS
7. ERIC: You’ve missed a lot of the semester, but I can hook you up - tutor, cliff
notes, medical excuse... Analysis
In this scene, the utterances that will be discussed belong to Bella. Bella uses Negative Politeness Strategy NPS in speech 2 and speech 6. In speech
2, she uses hedge by using phrase like “kind of”, which is one of characters of women’s speech as proposed by Lakoff in her most famous work Language and
Womans Place 1975. While in speech 6, Bella tries to be pessimistic in asking someone to do something for her, just like the Brown and Levinson’s negative
politeness strategy. In accordance with Lakoff’s idea of women’s speech characters, Bella also uses Super- Polite forms by saying “would you mind”. In
this speech, Bella tries not to impose the addressee and avoid doing negative FTA. In another marked speech, i.e. speech 4, Bella uses Off-Record Indirect
Strategy ORIS toward her interlocutor. She uses this strategy in order to remove herself of imposing the hearer. Her interlocutor, Eric, previously has said that he
will make Bella as the headline of school paper but she does not want so. However, Bella avoids stating it directly, she prefer to say it indirectly. Instead of
asking Eric not to do it, Bella states that she is not news, not at all.
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SCENE 15 INT: CAFETERIA Follow Bella, Mike and Jessica as they carry their trays to a table. Eric appears,
and squishes into a seat next to Bella. 1.
ERIC: Mike, you met my home girl Bella. 2.
MIKE: Your home girl?
3. JESSICA: to Bella It’s first grade all over again, and you’re the shiny new toy. PPS
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