1 To describe the negative politeness strategies used by the characters in “TWILIGHT”
movie script. 2
To analyze social factors affecting negative politeness are used by characters in “TWILIGHT” movie script.
1.4 Scope of discussion
The current study is focused on the negative politeness strategy used by the characters in TWILIGHT movie script and analyze the social factors affecting negative politeness are used by
characters. Two of aims above will be the main discussion in this study.
1.5 Research Methods
In this section, there are three points of discussions covered including data source, method and technique of collecting data, method and technique of analyzing data.
1.5.1 Data Source
The data in this study was taken from the script, act, and condition of the movie “TWILIGHT” which has been published in the internet or sold by video shop that is used as
primary data. The movie script is chosen as the primary data source in this study due to the script is more specific to show the conversations between the characters. Here with detail from the data
source : 1.
Twilight movie script written by Melissa Rosenberg, 2.
Based on novel by Stephenie Meyer, 3.
Written on February 11, 2008. 4.
Taken from internet on January 7
th
2015.
5. Taken from Website: http:www.imsdb.comscriptsTwilight.html
. The movie script will be also used in this study as written data in order to support the analysis.
1.5.2 Method and technique of collecting data
The data of the study was collected by documentation method in order to find out the negative politeness strategy is used by the characters in “Twilight” movie script. These are the
steps that were used in collecting data: 1
Watching Movie, watching movie to seeing the conditions and the situations of the characters when they communication with the other.
2 Reading the script of the movie thoroughly, this step was primary technique to collecting
the data. 3
Note taking for the data from the script, after watching the movie and reading one by one the conversation in the script this step will be the last step before write in this study.
1.5.3 Method and technique of analyzing data
Collecting data was analyzed in qualitative method, it means that the analysis is not counting numbers. The data is described in a way narrative. In order to analyze the data, the
conversation was investigated based on politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987. According to these linguists, there are ten strategies of negative politeness, and the
conversation was checked which strategy it belongs to. Then the data was analyzed according to the theory proposed by Holmes 1992 to classify the social factors that affecting negative
politeness.
