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naughty boys. This kind of strategy was a direct threat toward the hearer face. Additionally, the conversation between Edward and Bella also indicated how
relative power would be affected the choice of politeness strategy.
c. Rank of Imposition
When a speaker showed greats FTAs in the utterances, the imposition of the act was also getting greater. Brown and Levinson 1987 state that the rank of
imposition was the degree of a matter that was considered as the interference to the face of the hearer. This interference was the FTA that the speaker made. In
other words, the degree of the FTA defined the rank of imposition. The rank of imposition could be identified by two variables which were the imposition toward
the positive face and negative face. However, the speaker would use highly standard politeness strategies in speaking if the speaker wanted to minimize the
imposition in the utterances. The threat of the positive face could be shown in the act of creating a
social distance with the hearer. In Twilight movie, there were several examples of this case. The used
of in group identity marker such as „dude‟, „kitty‟, „monkey man‟ and „dear‟ showed that the positive face of the hearer was saved by the
characters who applied those thing. The characters would give the hearer compliment to acknowledge
hearer‟s possession. Twilight
movie provided examples on how impositions would affect the choice of politeness strategy. There were so many impositions among the
characters‟ utterances. However, the writer only took two scenes as examples. The PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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first imposition was represented by Charlie towards Billy when he gave Bella the truck as homecoming present. Charlie said
“Oh yeah, dude. You‟re the bomb”. In the utterances, he applied positive politeness strategy which was considered
polite. The conversation happened when Bella has just arrived in his house. He said “dude” towards Billy as an example imposition of positive politeness strategy
In defining the imposition of negative face, there were two scales namely the imposition requiring services and goods. When the speaker wanted services or
goods that might threaten the hea rer‟s autonomy, the speaker would chose
negative politeness strategy or even off record strategy. The second imposition was represented by Edward towards Bella when they where at the restaurant. He
said “See.. I tell you I can read minds, and you think there‟s something wrong
with you? ”. In the utterances, he applied negative politeness strategy which was
considered more polite than the previous one. From the discussion above, the writer thought that research question 1
and reseach question 2 had been answered. The writer found that the types of politeness strategies used by the main characters in Twilight movie were bald-on
record politeness strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and off-record politeness strategy. To be more precise, there were 92
utterances of Positive Politeness, 80 utterances of Negative Politeness, 52 utterances of Bald on Record, and 30 utterances of Off Record produced by the 4
main characters of Twilight movie see Appendix A. The politeness strategies found in Twilight movie are illustrated in the table 4.1.
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Table 4.1 Politeness Strategies Found by the Main Characters of Twilight Movie
No Characters
Politeness Strategy Bald on
Record Positive
Politeness Negative
Politeness Off Record
1 Bella Swan
29 47
39 14
2 Edward Cullen
17 26
25 10
3 Charlie Swan
3 10
10 3
4 Jessica Stanley
3 9
6 3
Total 52
92 80
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Furthermore, the factors influenced the characters‟ politeness in speaking were payoffs and sociological variables see Appendix C. To sum up, it could be
noticed that the types of politeness strategies and the factors influencing the characters‟ politeness were related.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter consists of three sections, namely the conclusions, the implications, and the recommendations. The first section summarizes the research
findings, the second section presents the involvement of the study in education field, and the third offers the recommendations for the English learners, English
teachers, and Future researchers.
A. Conclusions
This research is a study of the use of politenes strategies in Twilight movie. It particularly intends to categorize politeness strategies and to analyze the
factors influenced the four main characters of Twilight movie’s politeness in
speaking. The writer employed Brown and Levinson’s 1987 politeness strategy
as the basis politeness concept. As a result, the writer employed Brown and Levinson’s 1987 theory to categorize politeness strategies and to analyze
politeness factors by the four main characters of Twilight movie, namely Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Charlie Swan, and Jessica Stanley.
There were two research problems which need to be answered in this research as formulated in Chapter I. The first research problem was aimed to find
out what kind of types of politeness strategies used by the main characters of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
