Sociological Variables Factors That Influence The Choice of Strategies
26 provide an example of the study of politeness strategies which had been done by
the previous researchers. An example of the study of politeness strategies has been done previously
by Heribertus Hercules Anggi Oktorio 2015. The study is entitled A Study of Politeness Startegies Used by The Four Main Characters of Yes Man.
The study which is written by Oktorio 2015 analyzed the types of politeness strategies used
by the four main characters in Yes Man movie and the factors which influence the four main characters in choosing the types of politeness strategies. The researcher
employed the theory from Brown and Levinson 1987 about the types of politeness strategies and the factors that influence the four main characters in
choosing the types of the politeness strategies. The method applied for this study was document analysis which analyzed the movie script of Yes Man movie.
Another example of the study of politeness strategies had been done previously by Tunggul Kumoro Damarjati 2014. The study is entitled A Study of
Politeness Strategies and The Degree of Politeness by the Main Characters in “King’s Speech”. In his thesis, Damarjati 2014 analyzed the politeness
strategies used by the main characters with a reference from the politeness strategies theory proposed by Brown and Levinson 1987. Damarjati 2014 also
analyzed the degree of politeness of the main characters‟ utterances by using the
theory from Leech 1983. In his thesis, the researcher employed document analysis as the method in doing the research.
The research written by Oktorio 2015 and Damarjati 2014 are significant for the writer of this study as references in finding the theories.
27 However, there is a different problem which is analyzed in this research. In the
study done by Damarjati 2014, the research questions are to find out the types of politeness strategies and the degree of the politeness strategies. Besides, the study
done by Oktorio 2015 is different with this study because of the different subject which is taken as the data source. In the study done by Oktorio 2015, Yes Man
movie was taken as the data source while in this study Begin Again movie is taken as the data source. Therefore, the findings of this study will also be different from
the previous study which has been done by Oktorio 2015. Since the writer of this study aimed to develop the research done by the previous researcher, the
research questions of this study are to find out the types of the politeness strategies from other movies and to find out the factors which may influence the
characters in choosing the politeness strategies. Thus, the conclusion is the researches from Oktorio 2015 and Damarjati 2014 give significant help in
finding the references of the theories. However, since there are some differences in the research problem and the subject, the writer of this study expects that this
study can give significant benefits for the readers and the future researchers to improve their understanding about politeness in a language.