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4.1. Describe kinds of politeness strategies used by Ellen as the host of Ellen DeGeneres Show when communicate with the guest of the talk show
which implied to save the speaker‟s and interlocutor‟s face from Face Threatening Act FTA caused by her speech.
4.2. Describe kinds of politeness strategies used by the guest of the show, Mr. Barrack Obama when communicate with Ellen DeGeneres which
implied to save the speaker‟s and interlocutor‟s face from Face Threatening Act FTA caused by his speech.
4.3. Know the factors influencing speaker to choose kinds of politeness strategies in the dialogue.
5. Significances of the Study
This research of politeness strategy in Ellen DeGeneres Show is expected to give benefits theoretically and practically. Theoretically, this research can enrich
the previous research on politeness strategy and speech act. Practically, this research becomes one of useful reference materials for the readers who are
interested in politeness strategies in Ellen DeGeneres talk show. Besides, it can give recommendations for readers in choosing communication strategy and give
advantageous for practitioners in the communication field.
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6. Research Methodology
“Research methodology is a set of principles which is essential for the research process.” Farkhan 52 In this research, the research methodology is
divided into some parts as follow:
6.1. Method of Research This research is in the pragmatics field and conducted by using
qualitative research method. The qualitative data refers to types of information that are non-countable or not expressed numerically. This
information includes elements that are termed intangible or immeasurable because they express qualities, values, the state of
mind, and ideas. Franklin 17. According to the analysis, this research applies descriptive analysis that
“involves gathering data that describe events and then organizes, tabulates, depicts, and describes the data
collection ” The Association for Educational Communications and
Technology The reason of using qualitative research is because this research
uses a transcript data from a talk show‟s dialogue which is a verbal and not numerical data and the data will focus on the state of mind and
ideas of the speakers.
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6.2. Unit of Analysis The unit of analysis in this research is the politeness strategies in
Ellen DeGeneres talk show episode February 12, 2016. The data is a transcription from the dialogue in the talk show which contains
politeness strategy. The source of the data is from YouTube https:www.youtube.comwatch?v=PLHo6uyICVk
6.3. Technique of Data Collecting Processing According to Ed. Subroto, key element for the qualitative
research method is the writer Subroto 4. The writer does some steps to collect and process the data as follow:
1. Identifying the problem by watching Ellen DeGeneres talk
show video, listens carefully to the dialogue, makes a transcription of the dialogue, reads the whole dialogue
transcription. 2.
Justifying the main problem of the research by picking the dialogue of the host and guest of the talk show which
assumed contain politeness strategy. 3.
Reducing the dialogue that is not accordance with the research problem.
4. Coding the dialogues which contain politeness strategy by
numbering the transcription.
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6.4. Technique of Data Analysis In this research, the writer does some steps in analyzing data, such
as: 6.4.1. Classifying politeness strategy that implied Face Saving
Act FSA of the speaker and interlocutor based on the context, illocutionary act, and kind of politeness strategy.
6.4.2. Analyzing speech act sentences using Brown and Levinson‟s politeness strategy theory and J.L.
Austin‟s speech act theory which are used as the main theories in this research.
6.4.3. Explaining politeness strategy that implied Face Saving Act FSA of the speaker and interlocutor
to avoid Face Threatening Act FTA. 6.4.4. Drawing a conclusion about linguistic phenomena
based on the data that has been analyzed.
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7. Conceptual Framework
