Findings FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
strategy and she realizes it in the form of conveying that both participants are cooperators. By using positive politeness strategy, the speakers get some
benefits. First, both the speaker and the addressee can get a mutual benefit by being cooperative. Second, when the speakers convey to the addressee that
they belong to the same group and have the same goals, it redresses the negative impact on the hearer’s face.
The next most frequent strategy is off record politeness strategy by inviting conversational implicature with 4 data, and 3 of them are performed
by Vanessa. There are two ways that can be used to realize off record politeness strategy. Inviting conversational implicature and being vague or
ambiguous. However, the performance of being vague or ambiguous is not found in the first season of The Lottery TV Series. Both Vanessa and Darius
perform speech acts of command by inviting conversational implicatures when the context of the conversation is clear. Thus, they can still convey their
intention clearly although some of the utterances contain multiple interpretations.
The least frequent strategy to occur is negative politeness with 3 data. All of them are performed by Vanessa in the form of being direct. Being
direct means saying something directly on record with an attempt to reduce the negative impact by taking the hearer’s negative face into consideration.
Therefore, the speaker can get an advantage for being polite in a certain degree. However, there are three more realizations of negative politeness
strategy which do not occur in the first season of The Lottery TV Series. They
are not presuming or assuming, avoiding to coerce the addressee, and communicating the speaker’s want to not impinge on the addressee. There are
two possible factors which make these realizations do not occur. First, when the speakers perform a command, most of their addressees are people who
work for them, thus, they do not have to be afraid of non cooperative actions from the addressee. Second, to perform a command means to coerce the
addressee to do something for the speakers and most of the speakers perform it directly in order to prevent multiple interpretations.
In relation to the third objective, Brown and Levinson in Goody 1978 propose that there are three factors which can influence the speaker to choose
a certain strategy of politeness. They are social distance, relative power, and ranking of imposition. All of these factors are found in the first season of The
Lottery TV Series. Relative power becomes the most dominant factor with 21 data;
12 of them are found in Vanessa’s utterances. Relative power strongly influences the speakers since most of their audiences are people working for
them. In some utterances, the addressee is probably socially close to the speakers but the setting and the topic is formal. The second most dominant
factor is social distance with 7 data and all of them are performed by Vanessa. Social distance never influences Darius because he rarely performs speech
acts of command except to someone who works for him. Finally, the least factor to occur is ranking of imposition with 2 data. Both Vanessa and Darius
perform each of them. Ranking of imposition influences them when their
addressee is someone who has no hierarchical working relationship with them and they respect the addressee.
In conclusion, there are four types of politeness strategies found in the first season of The Lottery TV Series with bald on record as the most
dominant strategy. For the realizations of the strategy, there are only five realizations of politeness strategy that are found in the data. Meanwhile, all
the three factors of politeness strategies are found in the data. Relative power becomes the most frequent factor to occur for each utterance.