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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. Findings
This section presents the findings of the analysis of politeness strategies of commands performed by Vanessa Keller and Darius Hayes in The Lottery
TV Series. The data were classified based on the three research objectives: to identify the types of politeness strategies, to describe the realizations of each
politeness strategies, and to identify the factors which initiate the performance of politeness strategies. This research reveals 30 data based on the utterances
of Vanessa and Darius. Vanessa performs 20 utterances and Darius performs 10 utterances as presented in Table 2. The table presents the frequency of
occurrence of types, realizations, and factors of politeness strategies.
Table 2. The frequency of occurrence of types, realizations, and factors of politeness strategies performed by Vanessa and Darius in
The Lottery TV Series
Types : Factor :
BR :
Bald on Record D
: Social Distance
OR :
Off Record P
: Relative Power
PP :
Positive Politeness R
: Ranking of Imposition
NP :
Negative Politeness
Speaker Types and the Realization
Total Data
Factor Total
Data BR
OR PP
NP D
P R
NM CI
VA CG
PC BD
PA AC
SW Vanessa
11 3
3 3
20 7
12 1
20
Darius 3
1 4
2 10
9 1
10
Total 14
4 9
3 30
7 21
2 30
Realizations: NM
: Non Minimization
CI :
Inviting Conversational Implicature
VA :
Being Vague or Ambiguous
CG :
Claiming for Common Ground PC
: Conveying that Both Participants are Cooperators
BD :
Being Direct
PA :
Not Presuming or Assuming
AC :
Avoiding to Coerce the Addressee
SW :
Communicating the Speaker’s Want to Not Impinge on the Addressee
Brown and Levinson in Goody 1978 propose four types of politeness strategies. They are bald on record, off record, positive politeness and
negative politeness. In relation to the speech act of command, each type of politeness strategies is found in the data. Moreover, the frequency of
occurrence of each type of politeness strategies is different. The most frequent strategy performed by the speakers is bald on record
politeness strategy with 14 data. In this strategy, Vanessa performs 11 utterances and the other 3 utterances are performed by Darius. Since there is
only one way to perform bald on record which is without minimization of face threat, therefore, the form of bald on record politeness strategy will be
very clear without any ambiguity. Thus, the directness of bald on record politeness strategy gives more advantages for the speakers in giving a
command. The second most frequent strategy is positive politeness strategy with 9
data. Six of them are performed by Darius. He performs 4 utterances of positive politeness strategy by claiming for common ground and 2 more
utterances by conveying that both participants are cooperators. On the other hand, Vanessa only performs 3 utterances which contain positive politeness
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