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12 1:37
Obama: you know over the interesting thing is actually I feel really
energetic. The first time I came, there was a lot of possibilities out there but also uncertain and you know. Youre young youre eager to get
started but you dont know what you dont know and now after having served for seven years, and having got a lot done seen the
progress that weve made. Seeing the incredible resilience the
American people in fighting back from recession and more in some ways. The fear drops away you feel confident but Americas going to
do well you know the job better or more relaxed than and just as enthusiastic as I was the first NASCAR
a. Politeness Strategy in Dialogue 2
As seen in 9, Ellen used negative politeness in strategy 6; apologize. Here Ellen was asked to Obama what it was felt like become someone who‟s
going to leave his tenure. Now Obama is in the end of his period as a President of U.S. and will be an ex-
President. That‟s mean Obama is going to become someone who‟s not powerful as he used to be. The illocution used in Ellen‟s
utterance is directive where the S want X or speaker wanted situation. Here Ellen as speaker wanted to get information from her interlocutor, but the information
which Ellen needed to know could threat Obama ‟s negative face and her positive
face for impinging. In utterance 12 Obama was using two strategies, first is positive
politeness in strategy 7 which is presuppose common ground in the point-of-view operation strategy. Obama uttered this when he was an
swering Ellen‟s question of how it feels like when he became President in the beginning of period. The
illocution used here is assertive where S believes X or speaker believes situation.
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In this case, Obama believed what he uttered because that was his own experience.
The second strategy is positive politeness in strategy 3 which is intensify interest to H. This talk show was produced and broadcasted in America and other
countries. The hearer in this utterance is not just Ellen, but also American people who watched this talk show. Obama praised America people for being struggle
with their country‟s condition.
b. Factors Influencing the Choice of Strategy in Dialogue 2
1. Payoff
Ellen‟s payoff for using negative politeness is to save Obama‟s negative face. She was using hedge before uttering her question. She described Obama‟s current
condition implied in her utterance when she said that Obama ever come to her show before. Then Ellen used negative politeness in strategy 6 to communicate
she wanted to not impinge on Obama. Ellen could indicate her reluctance to impinge on her interlocutor‟s negative face and thereby partially redress that
impingement. She admitted that she was impinging on Obama‟s face by using hedge “an obvious question but...” before uttering the question. This strategy is
implied that Ellen as speaker was indirectly apologizing for doing FTA. Positive politeness in strategy 7 is approach-based in datum 12, Obama
taking the role of Ellen in order to reduce the distance between his and Ellen‟s point of view by using personal-center switch, speaker to hearer. The payoff of
this act is to satisfy Ellen‟s positive face. He spoke as if Ellen was him by using
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word you instead of I. He told about his experience to Ellen but he talked like Ellen did that experience.
The payoff of using the second strategy which is positive politeness in strategy 3 is to satisfy hearers who are viewers of the show, whether in the home or studio.
Obama intensified his interest to the hearers who are America people. He making a good story that seeing America people are struggling from country collapse was
pleased him a lot. 2.
Sociological value
The power P factor in 9 was more considerable in this utterance, where hearer has greater power over the speaker and this again lessens of FTA weightiness
which provided Ellen with the reason for her choice of strategy.
Table 3.3. The analysis of politeness strategy in dialogue 2 No.
Data Speaker
FTA Politeness strategy
Factor the Choice of Strategy Payoff
Sociological 9
Ellen Request
forpersonal information
negative politeness in strategy 6;
apologize Save
Obama‟s negative face
Power
12 Obama
No FTA positive politeness
in strategy 7; presuppose
common ground in the point-of-view
operation strategy Satisfy
Ellen‟s positive face
-
12 Obama
No FTA positive politeness
in strategy 3 Satisfy
viewer‟s positive face
-
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Dialogue 3
20 4:22
Ellen : ... I think we have people that we all have one thing in
common which we just want a good quality of life and then we have these people that feel one way and if someone feels another
way we tend to hate them and its just you know
21 4:48
Obama : its not helpful
22 4:50
Ellen: no. its not helpful
a. Politeness Strategy in Dialogue 3
