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Positive Politeness Strategies on Catwoman Movie
Positive Politeness Strategies on Catwoman Movie
ABSTRACT
Based on the importance of positive politeness in communication, the researcher
intended to analyze how positive politeness strategy uttered by Patience Phillips on
Catwoman Movie. It is conducted to find out the kinds and purpose of positive
politeness strategy employed by Patience Phillips and also to investigate the factors
influencing Patience Phillips applying those strategies in relation to Brown and
Levinson’s theory of politeness strategy. This research deals with pragmatics approach.
It is descriptive qualitative study. The data are all the dialogues contained positive
politeness strategy uttered Patience Phillips in Catwoman Movie. There are 30 data
found in the movie. The data are then analyzed by used Brown and Levinson’s positive
politeness strategy. The result of this research showed that there are 15 types of positive
politeness strategy employed by Patience Phillips in the dialogues of Catwoman Movie.
Positive politeness strategy involved fifteen strategies, namely: notice, attend to the
hearer (his interest, wants, needs, goods), exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with
the hearer), intensify interest to the hearer, use in-group identity markers, seek
agreement, avoid disagreement, presuppose / raise / assert common ground, joke, assert
or presuppose the speaker’s knowledge and concern for the hearer’s wants, offer /
promise, be optimistic, include both the speaker and the hearer in the activity, give (or
ask for) reasons, assume or assert reciprocity, and give gifts to the hearer (goods,
sympathy, understanding, cooperation). Each strategy has different purposes. There are
two factors influencing Patience Phillips in applying positive politeness strategy.
Namely payoff and circumstances, the payoff factors and the circumstances factors
(including relative power, social distance, and size of imposition) influence Patience
Phillips in several data. Finally, the researcher expects this research will be useful for
future researcher who conducted for the same field. It is suggested to further researchers
to be able to investigate other objects and may try to analyze from different focus, such
as focused on negative politeness, bald on record or off record strategy or used another
principal theory of politeness such as politeness theory from Leech, Grice, Scollon or
Lakoff.
Key words: Positive Politeness Strategy, B&L Theory, Pragmatics
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