rather than negative or positive politeness. It is because the addressee has a relatively lower power compared to the speaker
5. The Lottery TV Series
Figure 1. The poster The Lottery TV Series Season 1
The Lottery is an American TV series which directed by Timothy J. Sexton. Its first season was broadcasted on Lifetime TV network from July
20 to September 28, 2014. The story was set in 2025 when women stops to have children due to a vertility crisis.
The invertility pandemic is firstly noticed by the world’s government in
2016. In 2019, the last six children born all over the world. All countries does a lot of research and try to find the cure otherwise the human exsistance will
be extinct in less then a hundred years. Then, in 2025, the US Government make a breakthrough. Dr. Alison Lennon and her team who works for the US
Department of Humanity DOH are able to fertilize a hundred viable human
embryos. Soon, the president makes a meeting in White House in order to discuss the best plan for the embryos.
The head of the US DOH, Darius Hayes, argues that the government should keep the information secret from the outside world and involve the
U.S military to protect it. However, the chief of staff, Vanessa Keller does not agree with him. From the political perspective, she believes that the
government should do exactly the opposite of Darius’s idea. She suggests that the government should create the public lottery to find 100 women who will
carry the embryos. She adds, the public lottery will minimize the protests from the citizen and it will increase the popularity of the president. Moreover,
public lottery will create a new hope for the people to have a children in the future days. Finally, the president agrees with the idea of the lottery and
appoints Vanessa to prepare the project.
B. Previous Studies
The research on speech acts and politeness have been conducted for several times. These research show different results since they focus on
different points. Here, the researcher presents previous research related to the discussion on speech act and politeness. The first research is conducted by
Annisa Dewi Widowati 2012, entitled A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Act of Commands by the Main Character in the Film Elizabeth:The Golden Age.
The research focuses on three points. They are, identifying the types of commands, finding the form of commands, and analyzing how speech acts of
commands are expressed by the main character.
After conducting the research, Annisa Dewi Widowati found that there are two types of commands performed by the main character, direct and
indirect commands. According to the researcher, direct commands are mostly used by the main character. Further, she found that there are seven forms of
commands used by the main character in the film Elizabeth:The Golden Age. They are, base form of verb, you+imperative, present participle form of verb,
verb elipsisis, imperative+modifier, let+first person pronoun, embedded agent, and hints. Then, at last she found that the main charater performs the
speech act of commands in four ways. They are, bald on record, off record, positive politeness, and negative poiteness.
Another investigation is conducted by Mifta Hasmi 2013 that is A Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness Strategies Reflected in Nanny Mcphee
Movie. This research focuses on analyzing the use of politeness strategies. The result presents two important points. First, there are four politeness
strategies employed by the main character in the movie. They are, bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Second, in
realizing the politeness strategies, the main character utilized their own sub strategies. Bald on record are realized by showing disagreement, giving an
advice, request, warningthreatening, and using an imperative form. Positive politeness strategies are performed by claiming for common ground,
conveying that speaker and hearer are cooperators, and fulfilling the hearer ’s
face wants. Negative politeness strategies are realized by being indirect, not presumingassuming, not coercing, communicating the speaker
’s want to not
