An Analysis of Politeness Strategies Used in Yes Day (2021) Movie

Selina Putri; Fitrawati Fitrawati

doi:10.24036/ell.v11i4.114210

An Analysis of Politeness Strategies Used in Yes Day (2021) Movie

Selina Putri⁽¹⁾, Fitrawati Fitrawati⁽²⁾,
(1) Universitas Negeri Padang

Indonesia
(2) Universitas Negeri Padang

Indonesia

Corresponding Author
Copyright (c) 2022 Selina Putri

DOI : https://doi.org/10.24036/ell.v11i4.114210

Full Text:

Language : en

Abstract

This research aimed to find out the politeness strategies used in Yes Day (2021) movie. The research used descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was the Yes Day movie that focused on the script of movie. The data were all of the requesting utterances that uttered by all of the characters of Yes Day movie. The data were analysed using Brown and Levinson (1987) politeness theory. The researcher found four types of politeness strategies; they are bald on-record, positive politeness, negative politeness, off record strategy, and no don’t do the FTA. The result of the research showed that bald on-record was the most appeared strategy in Yes Day movie. Meanwhile, off record strategy was the least used strategy in Yes Day movie.

Keywords

Politeness, Politeness Strategies, Yes Day movie

References

Article, P., & Rachmasari, T. R. I. A. (2013). Politeness Strategies of Request Utterances in Romantic Movie Script. Skripsi Thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness: some universals in language usage. In Cambridge University Press. https://books.google.co.id/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OG7W8yA2XjcC&oi=fnd&pg=PR12&dq=).+Politeness:+Some+universals+in+language+usage+(Vol.+4).&ots=w63CEpxo19&sig=X0SjDbu4pUw3L33gfE7b6tSvbgY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=). Politeness%3A Some universals in language usa

George, Y. (1996). Pragmatics by George Yule (z-lib.org).pdf. Spain: OUP Oxford., 1–76.

Glass, G. V, & Hopkins, K. D. (1984). Statistical methods in education and psychology. United Kingdom: Prentice-Hall., 578.

Lakoff, R. (1972). English Language in Context. United States: University of Michigan, Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences., 48(4), 907–927.

Wuryantini, Y. (2017). Politeness strategy of request used in “you’ve got mail” movie. Skripsi Thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

Dörnyei, Z. (2007). Research methods in applied linguistics, and mixed methodologies. OUP Oxford, 336. https://books.google.com/books/about/Research_Methods_in_Applied_Linguistics.html?id=R4dNAQAAMAAJ

Dwi, A., & A320080212, H. (2013). Politeness Strategies of Request Found in Pride and Prejudice Movie Publication. Skripsi Thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

Dzikriyah, H. (2018). Politeness Strategies of The English Subtitles of Request of Train to Busan Movie. Education and Teacher Training Faculty Walisongo State Islamic University Semarang, 1–143.