Review of Related Study

H. Review of Related Study

A study about compliment has been done by previous researcher. This has been done by Galih Endah Nurharjanti (2005) in her thesis entitled The Use of Compliments as Positive Politeness Strategy in Speeches of Men and Women Charact ers in the Film “Notting Hill”. This research is intended to describe the compliments of women and men, to show the topics of compliments expression and to describe the function of compliments as positive politeness strategy.

The result of the study covered by the findings that women receive more compliments than men as their positive politeness strategy in language use. Therefore, women are linguistically more polite than men. There are three topics of compliments; appearances/ possession, performance/ skill/ abilities, and personality traits/ friendliness topics. The functions of the compliments are to increase and consolidate solidarity between interlocutors, to ease communication, The result of the study covered by the findings that women receive more compliments than men as their positive politeness strategy in language use. Therefore, women are linguistically more polite than men. There are three topics of compliments; appearances/ possession, performance/ skill/ abilities, and personality traits/ friendliness topics. The functions of the compliments are to increase and consolidate solidarity between interlocutors, to ease communication,

The other research about politeness has been done by Eka Nurdianingsih (2006) in her thesis entitled An Analysis of Tact and Approbation Maxim Based on Leech Politeness Principles in the Mov ie “Maid in Manhattan”. It describes how tact and approbation maxims employed in the conversation of the movie and describes the aspect that make the utterances of the participants less or more polite.

The findings of the research show that the employment of tact maxim emphasizes cost and benefit of other, while the employment of approbation maxim emphasizes the praise or dispraise of other. Approbation maxim requires speaker to maximize praise to other. There are many aspects which make the utterances of the participants less or more polite. For instance, it is influenced by the scales of social relationship between participants including the social status/ authority scale and the social distance scale, for example, in the utterance

“Lavender! You‟re very creative Marissa.” Mrs. Burns as the superior gives the compliment directly to Marissa as the subordinate. There is a social distance between them since they are boss and maid but it is regard to be polite for Mrs. Burns to deliver the compliment to her maid. In her utterance, Mrs. Burns employs the approbation maxim because she maximizes the praise to Marissa by

giving a good comment about Marissa‟s appearance in presenting a bundle of purple orchids with lavender scent; the degree of language used including the choice of using words in delivering the utterance, the degree of indirectness and

the degree of optionality, and the way they are speaking by seeing the context of situation. For example, in the utterance uttered by Marissa to her friend Stephanie “Can I finish getting dressed, please? Thank you.” Marissa employs tact maxim in her utterance since she minimizes the cost to Stephanie. It can be proved by seeing the indirect utterance used by Marissa to Stephanie. This indirect utterance shows that Marissa wants Stephanie to help her, but she makes an utterance as if she does not ask Stephanie to help her wearing the uniform. It seems that she just wants Stephanie to give more time to her to finish her dressing by herself. Marissa‟s utterance is not force Stephanie to help her friend. It shows that Marissa

is being tactful in delivering a request to Stephanie. The use of indirect utterances in the conversation between the higher status participant and the lower status participant or between the equal status participants, for example between Caroline as the superior and Marissa as the subordinate or between Marissa and her friend may influence the degree of politeness. In the way of delivering the utterance, most of the participants have a tendency to use indirect utterance. They attempt to minimize the effect of an impositive so that the utterance seems to be more polite. For the result, the more indirect language used by the participant will increase the degree of politeness. The choice of using words in delivering an utterance will bring the effect to the degree of optionality. Here, if the speaker gives an option to the addressee in choosing the response, the utterance will be more polite. From the data analyzed, it can be seen that in using the language to deliver the some utterances, the participants choose some words for softening the effect of an impositive. The is being tactful in delivering a request to Stephanie. The use of indirect utterances in the conversation between the higher status participant and the lower status participant or between the equal status participants, for example between Caroline as the superior and Marissa as the subordinate or between Marissa and her friend may influence the degree of politeness. In the way of delivering the utterance, most of the participants have a tendency to use indirect utterance. They attempt to minimize the effect of an impositive so that the utterance seems to be more polite. For the result, the more indirect language used by the participant will increase the degree of politeness. The choice of using words in delivering an utterance will bring the effect to the degree of optionality. Here, if the speaker gives an option to the addressee in choosing the response, the utterance will be more polite. From the data analyzed, it can be seen that in using the language to deliver the some utterances, the participants choose some words for softening the effect of an impositive. The