1. to find the strategies of positive politeness expressed by the characters in
Carnage , and
2. to identify the types of maxim violation applied by the characters in
Carnage in expressing the positive politeness strategies.
F. Significance of the Study
There are two kinds of significance in this study, those are theoretical and practical. Those can be described as follows.
1. Theoretical Significance
This research can give information to linguistic research related to the politeness strategies.
2. Practical Significance
Practically, the research findings may be useful for the following parties: a.
The students of English Department Especially for those who major in linguistics, it can give additional
knowledge on pragmatics study in general, and to be more specific positive politeness analysis study.
b. To the English lecturers of English Department
The findings can be used as an example of how to analyze positive politeness strategies in the movie and could be seen as an alternative idea
to teach English using movie as the medium.
c. To the other researchers
The research can be used as additional information to conduct other research in linguistics, especially concerning politeness.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter deals with theoretical review, previous study, conceptual framework and analytical construct. The further explanation of the literature
review ’s section is described as follows. The first section describes some theories
of language related to the problems of this study. The second section analyzes some related studies that the researcher used as references of this study. The third
section shows how theories are applied to analyze the data. The last section presents the steps of data analysis.
A. Theoretical Review
1. Pragmatics
Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics which concerns the connection between the forms of linguistics and the people who applying those forms Yule,
1996:4. The language phenomena which are discussed in pragmatics mostly deal with the use of language by its user. As stated by Yule 1996:3, pragmatics is
concerned with four areas. Firstly, pragmatics is the study of speaker’s utterances
and the effort of the hearer to interpret those utterances. Secondly, pragmatics is the study of
the interpretation of speaker’s utterance in particular context. In this case, both of the speaker and the hearer have to be aware of the context that
follows the speaker’s utterance. Thirdly, pragmatics is the study of how to recognize the implied
meaning of the speaker’s utterances. The last, pragmatics is
