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After conducting the research, Annisa Dewi Widowati found that there are two types of commands performed by the main character, direct and indirect commands. According to the researcher, direct commands are mostly used by the main character. Further, she found that there are seven forms of commands used by the main character in the film Elizabeth:The Golden Age. They are, base form of verb, you+imperative, present participle form of verb, verb elipsisis, imperative+modifier, let+first person pronoun, embedded agent, and hints. Then, at last she found that the main charater performs the speech act of commands in four ways. They are, bald on record, off record, positive politeness, and negative poiteness. Another investigation is conducted by Mifta Hasmi 2013 that is A Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness Strategies Reflected in Nanny Mcphee Movie. This research focuses on analyzing the use of politeness strategies. The result presents two important points. First, there are four politeness strategies employed by the main character in the movie. They are, bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Second, in realizing the politeness strategies, the main character utilized their own sub strategies. Bald on record are realized by showing disagreement, giving an advice, request, warningthreatening, and using an imperative form. Positive politeness strategies are performed by claiming for common ground, conveying that speaker and hearer are cooperators, and fulfilling the hearer ’s face wants. Negative politeness strategies are realized by being indirect, not presumingassuming, not coercing, communicating the speaker ’s want to not impinge on the hearer, and reddressing other wants of the hearer. Lastly, off record strategies are realized by inviting conventional implicature, and being vague or ambiguous. This research is different from the previous studies since it is not only investigating speech act of commands and politeness strategies in general. Otherwise, the researcher tries to combine both discussions. In short, this research observes the role of politeness strategies used by the main characters in the first season of The Lottery TV Series to express the speech act of