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c. Positive Politeness
According to Brown and Levinson 1987, p. 106, positive politeness is redress directed to the addressees positive face, hisher perennial desire to the
hisher wants or actions acquisitions, and value resulting from them should be thought as desirable. Positive politeness is used to make the hearer feel good
about himself, his interests or possessions, and usually seen in groups of friends, or where people of given social situation know each other fairly well. For example
“You look sad. Can I do anything?” or “Thats a nice haircut you got, where did you get it?”
d. Off-record indirect
Brown and Levinson 1999, p. 316 define off-record strategy as a communicative act which is done in such a way that is not possible to attribute
one clear communicative intention to the act. Off record utterances are important in indirect use of language. For example if somebody says “Damn, I’m out of
cash, I forgot to go to the bank today”, the hidden meaning of the utterance can be that the speaker wants the hearer to lend himher some money. The off-record
indirect strategies include metaphor and irony, rhetorical question, understatement, tautologies, and all kinds of hints as to what a speaker wants or
means to communicate, without doing so directly. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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B. Politeness Strategies Used in The Intern Movie
In this section, the researcher presents the findings and discussion of the study in order to solve the research problem which has been formulated in Chapter
I. The formulated research problem is about the politeness strategies that are used by the Ben Whittaker and Jules Ostin in The Intern movie according to the
politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987. The utterances of the main characters of The Intern movie; Ben Whittaker
and Jules Ostin, were analysed by using politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987. Based on the analysis, the researcher found that all of the
main characters use the four politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987 in their utterances. The politeness strategies found in the
utterances of the main character of The Intern movie are illustrated in the table 2.1.
Table 2.1 Politeness Strategies Found in The Intern Movie No
Speaker Addressee
Politeness Strategies Frequency
1 Ben Whittaker
Jules Ostin Positive Politeness
12 Negative Politeness
22 Off-record
8 Bald On-record
9 2
Jules Ostin Ben Whittaker
Positive Politeness 29
Negative Politeness 14
Off-record 18
Bald On-record 4
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