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In addition, the movie pictures the best way how two characters who have rocky relationship finally fall in love to each other. What then intrigue me to use
this movie as the source of data is that the conversation uttered by the characters in the movie. I want to know the strategies used by the characters to deliver
criticism, how they respond the criticism and what factors influence them to use the strategies.
To analyze criticism, pragmatic approach is employed in this research. It is done because analyzing criticism shows the exploitation of character’s pragmatics
repertoire. Hence it cannot be separated from pragmatics study.
B. Research Questions
This study is guided by the following three questions: 1.
What politeness strategies are used by the characters to extend criticism? 2.
What politeness strategies are used by the characters to respond criticism? 3.
What factors influence the choice of politeness strategies?
C. Research Objectives
1. To find out the politeness strategies used by the characters to extend
criticism. 2.
To find out the politeness strategies used by the characters to respond the criticism.
3. To find out the factors that influence the choice of politeness strategy.
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D. Research Benefits
The research of politeness strategies of criticizing in the movie The Ugly Truth is expected to be beneficial for:
1. English Department students
The research will deepen the understanding about speech act, specifically criticism and the way to extend it. By conducting this research, I expect that
English Department students will be more aware about the speech act of criticism in everyday conversation so that the research will help them to
study it more comprehensively. 2.
Other researchers The research will be beneficial for other researchers to conduct a more
comprehensive research of related study. By having this research, other researchers who want to conduct under the same topic of speech act can use
this research as a reference. 3.
The public The public will know how to extend criticism using proper politeness
strategies. By doing this research, I expect that the public will have a comprehension about how to extend criticism using politeness strategies
considering the context and situation.
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E. Scope of the Research
The research focuses on the utterance of politeness strategies of criticism and the non-verbal expressions of the characters. The research identifies the kinds
of politeness strategies used by the characters to extend criticism, the kinds of politeness strategies used by the characters to respond criticism and the factors
influence the characters to choose the kinds of politeness strategies. To analyze the data, the theory of politeness by Brown and Levinson is applied in this
research. As the source of data, this research uses a movie entitled The Ugly Truth produced by Heigl and Luketic in 2009.
F. Research Method
