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a. Determining the topic and the objective of the thesis.
b. Reading the related literature data.
c. Determining of the object of the thesis and the theory to solved the
problem. d.
Watching the movie Her and reading the script. e.
Marking and giving notes on the politeness utterances found. f.
Identifying and analyzing based on related theory. g.
Concluding the research findings.
4. The Instrument of Research
The writer is the primary instrument for data collection and analysis.
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Data have been obtained by the author are written into a card called a data card, the data card contains data that has been taken in the script of the
film.
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Then, the data card used as instrument also besides the writer herself.
5. The Unit of Analysis
This thesis uses movie entitled Her as the corpus which the movie cast by Joaquin Phoenix as the main male character and Scarlet Johanson
as main female character, but her role in this movie is only a voice heard from computer. Moreover, the genre of this movie is drama. This movie
was released in 2013. This movie won Academy Award in 2014 for best writing original screenplay, and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay,
Motion Picture. These awards are very prestigious in the movie industry.
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Sharan B. Miriam. Qualitative Research: A guide to Design and Implementation, San Fransisco: Jossey Bass, 2009 p. 15
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION
A. Previous Research
Before writer doing this thesis about politeness in the movie Her, the study by previous writers have been done with different units of analysis. The
writer found four writers who wrote thesis about politeness, here are previous writers:
1. This thesis was written by Yuliana Prameswari in 2012, entitled Negative
Politeness Strategy in Diplomacy Meeting at UN Security Council Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament. She used several
t heories to analyzed the unit analysis, the theories are Brown and Levinson’s
negative politeness strategy, supported by other theories such as John Searle’s indirect speech act, Grice’s cooperative principle dimensions-non-
spuriousness, relevance, and pers picuosness, Leech’s tact maxim, Agha’s
honorification, Ross’s degrees of nouniness and Scollon’s politeness system. From this research, the writer found the fact that by applying the theories, the
writer knows that negative politeness strategy regularly implies in spokesman’s utterances to not infringe the hearer’s negative face and to
maintain the harmonized atmosphere among them. In brief, negative politeness as the heart of respect behavior has greatly contribution to the
success of international diplomacy. With negative politeness strategies, diplomats from different states can represent their own policy and resolution
without infringement to territory of hearer’s freedom.
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Yuliana Prameswari. Negative Politeness Strategy in Diplomacy Meeting at UN Security Council Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Disarmament. Jakarta: UIN Syarif
Hidayatullah, 2012
