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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
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The differences between the thesis above and this thesis is the corpus exist in real life and the situation is formal because the speech from the head
of government take place in international diplomacy about nuclear that the topic of the meeting is very important. Indeed, the utterances from the head of
government who involve in the meeting must be used politeness strategy not only to maintain the ‗face’ of the audiences who are the head of government
but also to maintain their country relationship. Besides, she also uses a different supporting theory like Agha’s Honorification because of the corpus
itself. Contrast, the writer uses Ronald Wardaugh politeness and solidarity as supporting theory because she uses movie as the corpus that the character in
the movie uttered in informal situation. 2.
This thesis was written by Resi Novira in 2010, entitled Negative Politeness Strategies As found in Rachael Ray Show. She used politeness strategy theory
by Brown and Levinson 1987, and negative politeness strategy as her specific analysis. She used quantitative analysis to know which strategy that
mostly used in the data. The results of this study are speakers of applying a
negative politeness strategies were found in 31 utterances. Strategy 1. Be conventionally indirect there are two utterances 6.45, strategy 2. Question,
Hedge there are nine utterances 29,03, strategy 3. Be pessimistic there are four utterances 12,90, strategy 4. Minimize the imposition, Rx there are 3
utterances 9,68, strategy 5. Give deference there are four utterances 12,09, strategy 6. Apologize there are 1 utterance 3,23, strategy 7.
Impersonalize S and H there are three utterances 9,68, strategy 8. State
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