n. Giving gifts to H goods, sympathy, understanding, cooperation
Finally, the last strategy of positive politeness is giving gifts to H goods, sympathy, understanding, cooperation strategy. This strategy is in the
second rank of the most-frequent data finding in Carnage movie. Its percentage is 14.92 out of 100. It means that among there are 10 data out of 67
occurrences. A datum that portrays an occurrence of this function is as follows.
4:33 Michael Longstreet : We always said, Brooklyn Bridge Park, fine. Hillside, no way.
Penelope Longstreet : Only goes to show you. But hey, thank you for
coming.
PPC002 Penelope printed the statement paper and gave it to Nancy. Once the
paper wa s in his wife’s hand, Alan tried to cut the meeting short, started
backing up toward the foyer. They continued talking as all made their way progressively toward the front door. Then, Penelope delivered her gratitude to
the Cowans since they had come to the apartment to solve the problem of their sons. She used the strategy of giving gifts to H goods, sympathy,
understanding, cooperation to sav e the Cowans’ positive faces. In this case,
she gave cooperation to them by saying thanks since they had come to her house.
Another example of this strategy is shown in the below datum. 4:34 Penelope Longstreet: The permanent implants can only be done once
you stop growing.
Nancy Cowan :
Naturally. I hope... I hope it all turns out all right.
PPC006
The conversation between Penelope and Nancy happened in the living room of the Longstreets’ apartment. Penelope told that the permanent implants
could not be done yet to her kid. Then, Nancy gave her sympathy about Penelope’s son who had been struck by her son. She responded to Penelope’s
statement by saying “I hope… I hope it all turns out all right.” Thus, Nancy
had saved Penelope’s positive face by using the strategy of giving gifts to H
goods, sympathy, understanding, cooperation 4:35 Penelope Longstreet : Shut the hell up.
Michael Longstreet : Take one cigar, Alan.
Relax. PPC064
Alan, Nancy, Michael and Penelope were arguing each other. Therefore, Michael wanted to make the situation better by using one of the
strategies of positive politeness. He got up and took a box of cigars from one of the cabinets and then he came back and held it out to Alan. He used giving gifts
to H goods, sympathy, understanding, cooperation strategy to sav e Alan’s
positive face. In this case, Michael gave a cigar as a gift to him.
2. Maxim Violation when the Characters are expressing the Positive
Politeness Strategies
The findings of the analysis show that all of the conversational maxims are violated, except the maxim of quantity. In fact, violation of relation maxim ranks
the highest for the category of the most-often appearing phenomenon. On the other hand, violation of manner maxim ranks the lowest for the same category.
The explanations as well as the examples are presented as follows.
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