An analysis of positive politeness strategy employed by the characters in the movie entitled “big fish” (a pragmatics study)

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Anggita Sari Pramiardhani - C0305012 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

The research study is used to analyze the positive politeness strategy in the film entitled “Big Fish”. The objectives of the research are to find the positive politeness strategies in relation to Brown and Levinson politeness strategy in a film written by John August. This research deals with pragmatic approach. It is a descriptive qualitative study. It employed purposive sampling as the sampling technique. The data of the research were the dialogues in a film from Tim Burton. Here, only the types of positive politeness strategies were analyzed. The researcher uses Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy. Finally the researcher find out of the kind positive politeness strategy, they are 15 strategies of positive politeness strategy. From the result, the researcher has found 26 data which content of positive politeness strategies. Then the researcher also find payoff and circumstances as some factors which influencing positive politeness strategies. The other finding of the research is that the reasons of employing the factors that influence the positive politeness strategy. Payoff is fulfilled because in employing positive politeness strategy, the speaker can get some advantages. The speaker can minimize the FTA by assuring the hearer that the speaker considers himself to be the same kind that he agrees the hearer and intends to fulfil the hearer wants. Another possible payoff is that the speaker can avoid or minimize the debt implications of FTA such as requesting and offering. It is found in the entire data. The second is circumstances which include social distance (D), power rating (P), and the size of imposition (R).