He excitedly holds up a spray painted onion. Everyone just looks at him. He’s disappointed by their apathy.
9. MR. MOLINA: Come on, people. Tick tock.
Everyone sets to work. Edward pushes the microscope to Bella, keeping his distance, his voice controlled.
10. EDWARD: Ladies first. NPS
She grabs the microscope defensively and snaps the first slide in, adjusting the lens. She’s curt as she addresses him.
11. BELLA: You’ve been gone.
12. EDWARD: Out of town. For personal reasons.
13. BELLA: Prophase.
She begins to remove the slide.
14. EDWARD: May I look? NPS
She slides him the microscope. He glances through the lens. 15.
EDWARD: Prophase. 16.
BELLA: muttering Like I said. 17.
EDWARD: Enjoying the rain? 18.
BELLA: Seriously? You’re asking me about the weather? 19.
EDWARD: It appears. 20.
BELLA: No. I don’t like the cold. Or the wet. Or the gray. Or parkas. Or turtle necks.
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Is that a smile playing on his lips? For the first time, he seems more intrigued than agonized. He studies her. She still can’t tell if he despises her or not. It’s
infuriating. 21.
BELLA: What? He shakes his head and turns to the microscope, switching out the slides.
22. EDWARD: Anaphase.
23. BELLA: May I? NPS
she looks through the lens Anaphase. 24.
EDWARD: Like I said. 25.
EDWARD: handing her the slide If you hate cold and rain, why move to the wettest place in the continental U.S.
26. BELLA: It’s complicated.
27. EDWARD: I think I can keep up. NPS
He actually seems interested. She looks into the microscope as -- 28.
BELLA: My mother remarried.
29. EDWARD: Very complex. So you don’t like him. PPS
30. BELLA: Phil is fine. Young for her, but nice enough.
re: the slide Interphase.
Analysis The characters’ utterances that will be discussed in this scene belong to
Edward and Bella although there are other ones. It is the first time Edward and Bella get involved in conversation since they met. They have been met before in
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the same class however they have not talked each other before. Moreover, Edward seemed to avoid talking to her and even kept staying away from her. But now he
is starting greeting Bella with “hello” in speech 4 and continuing introducing himself in speech 5. To respond to Bella’s silence of shock, Edward call Bella
with her own name in speech 6. It is a prompt indeed but it can be considered as Positive Politeness Strategy PPS. Edward had been rude to Bella when they first
met and tried to move to another class in order to avoid Bella. His behaviour towards Bella had made Bella thought Edward does not like her. It has threatened
Bella’s negative face. It seems Edward want to redeem his former fault by greeting her politely and trying to behave nicely. He tries his best effort; he even
knows Bella’s nickname. Usually Bella has to tell her new friends that she wants to be called just with her nickname “Bella” rather than “Isabella”. Unpredictably,
Edward knows it and directly calls her with just “Bella”. It has saved Bella’s positive face.
Then, in speech 10 Edward uses NPS by stating the FTA as a general rule. Edward asks Bella to look the onion cells through microscope; however he
does not use direct words to ask her in order to save Bella’s negative face. Edward decides to state general rule by saying “ladies first” to Bella.
Again, Edward uses NPS in speech 14 by using question when asking Bella to give him a chance to see through the lens. And Bella does so in speech
23 when asking the same thing to Edward. Both Edward and Bella also follow the tact maxim proposed by Leech, i.e. ‘minimizing the expression of beliefs
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which imply cost to other’, which fits in with Brown and Levinsons negative politeness strategy of minimizing the imposition.
Still on Edward utterance in speech 27, Edward uses NPS again by hedging his speech, “I think I can keep up.” The term ‘hedge’ was first used by
Lakoff 1972:194 to mean “words whose job is to make things more or less fuzzy.” A hedge is a mitigating device used to lessen the impact of an utterance.
Hedge is one of the examples of Negative Politeness Strategy given by Brown and Levinson. ‘I think’ is a hedge using cognition verb ‘think’ and personal pronoun
‘I’ precedes it to give a focus to the speaker’s assumption of personal responsibility. Edward decides to use NPS in this conversation in order to save
Bella’s negative face. In previous conversation, speech 25, Edward asks Bella the reason why she moves to the wettest place in the continental U.S. if she hates
cold and rain. Bella seems avoiding explain the reason; she only says that it is complicated as noted in speech 26. Edward somehow really wants to know what
the reason is, but he understands that Bella has a freedom of act. That’s why Edward chooses to hedge his words. Instead of repeating the same question which
will sound like a force, he says “I think I can keep up.” By saying so, Edward not only save Bella’s negative face but also succeed to persuade her to tell him what
the reason is as noted in speech 28. In speech 29 Edward uses PPS by showing his engagement in this
interaction with his comment “very complex”. It can be considered to satisfy Bella’s positive face. Then, Edward seeks agreement by saying “so you don’t like
him”, which is one of strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson.
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SCENE 36: INT. HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY Bella exits holding the golden onion, and practically runs into Edward who is
directly in front of her. 1.
EDWARD: Why didn’t you stay with your mom and step dad? PPS
He waits for her answer, studying her, as if trying to decipher her. She’s drawn in by his attention, oddly compelled.
2. BELLA: Alright, Phil’s a minor league baseball player, so he travels a lot.
My mother stayed home with me but it made her unhappy. So I decided to spend time with my father. PPS
3. EDWARD: But now you’re unhappy. BORS
4. BELLA: No... I -- I just...
Bella turns away -- embarrassed, vulnerable.
Analysis In the beginning of this scene, the conversation of Edward and Bella goes
very well. Both of them use PPS in speech 1 Edward and in speech 2 Bella. They are engaged in nice talk because their positive faces are saved, their desires
to be listened and perceived are fulfilled. However, suddenly in speech 3 Edward uses Bald On-Record Strategy
BORS with little or no desire to maintain Bella’s face. He uses no redressive action by directly saying “But now you’re unhappy.” As a result, Bella is nervous
and turns away since she is embarrassed.
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SCENE 39: INT. HOSPITAL - RECEPTION Charlie and Bella exit the treatment area.
1. CHARLIE: I just have to sign some paperwork. You better call your
mom. BORS
2. BELLA: You told her? She’s probably freaking. BORS
He shrugs and hurries off. Bella shakes her head, pulls out her cell phone. Is about to dial, but then sees down the hall...
Rosalie is clearly furious at Edward who stands his ground. Dr. Cullen plays intermediary.
3. ROSALIE: This isn’t just about you, it’s about all of us --
Dr. Cullen sees Bella and stops Rosalie -- 4.
DR. CULLEN: Let’s take this in my office. Rosalie glares at Edward as she goes off with Dr. Cullen. Edward adopts a
nonchalant air as Bella approaches, determined. 5.
BELLA: Can I talk to you for a moment? NPS
off his nod How did you get over to me so quickly? 6.
EDWARD: I was standing right next to you. 7.
BELLA: You were next to your car, across the lot. He steps closer to her. His expression turns icy hard.
8. EDWARD: No, I wasn’t.
She won’t be bullied. Steps closer to him. 9.
BELLA: Yes. You were. 10.
EDWARD: You’re confused. You hit your head.
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11. BELLA: I know what I saw.
12. EDWARD: And what, exactly, was that?
13. BELLA: You stopped that van. You pushed it away.
14. EDWARD: No one will believe that.
15. BELLA: I wasn’t planning to tell anyone. PPS
This registers with Edward. They’re inches from each other, the tension thick. 16.
BELLA: I just want to know the truth. 17.
EDWARD: Cant you just thank me and get over it? NPS
18. BELLA: Thank you.
A long beat as they look at each other, angry, defensive... and without a doubt, attracted.
19. EDWARD: You’re not going to let it go, are you? NPS
20. BELLA: No.
21. EDWARD: turns, walks away Then I hope you enjoy disappointment.
BORS
22. BELLA: Why did you even bother?
He stops, a beat. Looks back at her, unexpectedly vulnerable. 23.
EDWARD: ... I don’t know. And he keeps walking. Off Bella, confused, frustratingly attracted, and
absolutely determined to find out the truth. Analysis:
In this scene, the utterances that will be analyzed are Charlie’s, Bella’s and Edward’s. Firstly, the conversation between Charlie and Edward as noted in
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speech 1 and speech 2. Charlie and Bella use Bald On-Record Strategy in this conversation. Often using such a strategy will shock or embarrass the addressee
but in this case it does not happen for they have a close relationship as father and daughter family. Also, the FTA’s are done in this way because the speaker does
not fear retribution from the addressee where the danger to addressee’s face is very small.
Secondly, the conversation that will be discussed is conversation between Bella and Edward. Bella is the one who starts it as noted in speech 5. In this
speech, it can be considered that Bella uses Negative Politeness Strategy NPS. She also follows the tact maxim proposed by Leech by minimizing the expression
of beliefs which imply cost to other. She asks for Edward’s agreement firstly before she talks to him. Bella recognizes Edward’s negative face and does not
want to threat it however she has a will to talk to him. That’s why Bella says, “Can I talk to you for a moment?” instead of saying “I have to talk to you”, for
example. Still Bella and Edward’s conversation in this scene as noted in speech 6
until speech 14. During these speeches both Bella and Edward can be considered has threaten their interlocutor’s face. They do not do any redressive action at all.
Both of them show their disagreement of what their partner has been said. It means that they have threatened their interlocutor’s positive face. In this scene,
Edward and Bella are involved in quarrel about how Edward saved Bella from a van crash. It can be seen in speech 6 that Edward says that he is just next to Bella
when the crash happened, so it is easy to save her. However, Bella directly says
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her disagreement in speech 7 that she is sure Edward was far away from her at that time, and so does Edward. He directly refuses it by saying “No, I wasn’t” as
noted in speech 8. It threats Bella’s face again, so she clearly without any redressive action denies it in speech 9 by saying “Yes. You were.” Their
impolitenesses still continue until speech 14. However, in speech 15 Bella starts it again to redress. Bella promises that
she won’t tell anyone what Edward will might say. Bella states the promise as Edward is unlikely to tell her the truth. Bella hopes Edward will tell her the truth
by using Positive Politeness Strategy. To respond Bella, Edward leads her to another idea than idea of want to
know the truth. Previously, Edward has helped Bella from crashing but she has not thanked him yet. Instead, Bella asks Edward of how he can save her very
quickly. Edward wants Bella to do something and not to do another thing, i.e. he wants her just to thank him and not to ask any more question. Edward uses
Negative Politeness Strategy NPS by being conventionally indirect to convey his idea as seen in speech 17. Edward tries not to threat Bella’s negative face by
using NPS in question form rather than in order form. The result is Bella thanks him as noted in speech 18.
Although Bella has thanked him, Edward knows that Bella still wants to know how he can move so fast. He states it in speech 19, “You’re not going to
let it go, are you?” In this section, Edward uses NPS strategy 2 by questioning. He prefers using tag question to direct statements for it is one of the techniques to
show politeness as mentioned before in the previous chapter.
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In speech 21, Edward uses Bald On-Record Strategy BORS with no redressive action by saying “then I hope you enjoy disappointment” to Bella. In
this utterance, the speaker does not try to minimize the threat at all. It tends to be sarcastic that can hurt the addressee’s feeling.
SCENE 43: INT. COMMUNITY COLLEGE GREENHOUSE - FIELD TRIP Mr. Molina and a Tour Guide lead several dozen kids through the greenhouse.
Bella keeps an eye on Edward who’s up ahead with Alice and Jasper. When Bella sees Edward pause by an ancient staghorn fern, alone, she takes a breath for
courage and strides up to him. 1.
BELLA: Hello, Edward. He glances at her, merely nodding. We notice his FISTS clench, and unclench.
Bella looks at him, appalled by his rudeness. 2.
BELLA: Really? No response. She turns, starts to walk away.
3. EDWARD: What’s in Jacksonville?
She turns back to him. 4.
BELLA: How did you know about that? 5.
EDWARD: You didn’t answer my question. BORS
6. BELLA: You haven’t answered any of mine. BORS
You won’t even say hello. NPS
7. EDWARD: Hello.
8. BELLA: And how did you stop that van?
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9. EDWARD: Adrenaline rush. Very common. Google it.
10. BELLA: not buying it Floridians. That’s what’s in Jacksonville.
She turns to storm off but she stumbles over the irrigation hose. Edward steadies her, catching her scent -- still so powerful... He clenches his jaw.
11. EDWARD: It helps if you actually watch where you put your feet.
BORS
Insulted, she keeps moving. He keeps pace, serious now. 12.
EDWARD: I know I’ve been rude, but it’s for the best. She just looks at him like he’s crazy. He walks away as Jessica suddenly
rushes up. 13.
JESSICA: Guess who just asked me to prom Bella smiles.
14. JESSICA: I totally thought Mike was going to ask you, Bella. Is it gonna be
weird? 15.
BELLA: No way. Zero weirdness. You guys are great together. PPS
16. JESSICA: I know, right? PPS
Analysis In speech 5 and speech 6, Edward and Bella use Bald On-Record
Strategy BORS as both of them do not attempt to minimize the threat to the addressee’s face. Though they both has been quite impolite in this speech, Bella
then tries to save Edward’s face in speech 6 by saying “you won’t even say
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hello’”. This can be considered as NPS for Bella uses pessimistic strategy to save Edward’s negative face.
Then, in speech 11 Edward uses Bald On-Record Strategy BORS to Bella. It can be considered impolite since Edward uses BORS with no desire to
maintain Bella’s face. And the result is Bella is insulted. The next discussion is the utterances of Bella and Jessica as noted in
speech 15 and speech 16. They both use Positive Politeness Strategy PPS. In speech 15, Bella uses in-group identity markers by using guys as in “you guys
are great together.” She makes her hearer feel good of herself and saves hearer’s positive face. While, Jessica shows her agreement in order to raise common
ground with the speaker, Bella. It can be seen that they follow Leech’s agreement maxim by minimizing the expression of disagreement between self and other and
maximizing the expression of agreement between self and other.
SCENE 44: EXT. COMMUNITY COLLEGE GREENHOUSE - THE BUSES
1. EDWARD: Bella, it would be better if we werent friends. NPS 2. BELLA: Too bad you didn’t figure that out earlier. ORIS
You could have let the van crush me and saved yourself all this regret.
3. EDWARD: You think I regret saving you? BORS
