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characters were analyzed using the politeness theories explained in chapter II in the form of narrative description and interpretation. This would result
identification of the politeness strategy and the factors underlay the choice of the strategy afterward.
B. Research Setting
The analysis of the Yes Man movie was started from November 5
th
, 2014 until March 10
th
, 2015. The writer spent four months in analyzing the script of the movie. The four months data tabulation process included the state of analyzing the
script, categorizing the characters’ utterances, identifying the underlying factors of the choice of the politeness strategies and writing up the report of the study.
C. Research Data Source
The research data source of this study was the script of Yes Man movie, where the utterances of the main characters were analyzed as the data. There were
four main characters from whom the writer took the utterances. The main characters were
Carl Allen, Peter Carl’s best friend, Norman Carl’s coworker, and Allison Carl’s girlfriend. Those characters were chosen because they had
important roles and they also had more portions of dialogue within the movie.
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D. Research Instruments
The first instrument of this qualitative research was the researcher as human instrument. Lincoln and Guba 1985 state that researcher as human
instrument is an instrument that is the only flexible enough instrument to follow the complexity and the dynamism of human experience, as the data of a
qualitative research. The researcher or the writer collected and analyzed the data. In supporting the process of data analysis and collection, the writer employed
information taken from books, journals, and internet. The second instrument of the research was the movie script of Yes Man.
The movie script was the document that is needed as the material of qualitative research. Miles and Huberman 1994 stated that documents could be public
records, textbook, letters, films, tapes, diaries, themes, reports and so on. The writer selected some utterance made by the four main characters containing
politeness strategy
from the
script. The
script was
taken from
www.englishclique.com. The selected utterance taken from the script of Yes Man were used to analyze and answer the first research problem which was “What kind
of politeness strategies are used by the main characters of Yes Man ?” and the
analysis result was employed to answer the second research question which was “What factors influence the execution of politeness strategies done by the main
character of Yes Man? ”
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E. Data Gathering Techniques
