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Compliment has the basic function in supporting the relation between the addressers and the addressees. It means that compliment can be one of the ways in maintaining a good relationship and the notion of ‘face’. Mostly, compliment is followed by its response, hence those things cannot be separated.
This study aims to answer three research questions: 1) What politeness strategies are employed by the characters in two movies entitled Fundamentals of Caring and Wonder in giving and responding to compliments?; 2) What topics of compliment are employed by the characters in two movies entitled Fundamentals of Caring and Wonder?; 3) How do the characters respond to the complimentsin twomoviesentitled Fundamentals of Caring and Wonder? This study is a descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from conversations between characters in Fundamentals of Caring and Wonder which contain compliment and its response. This study employs Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies in analysing compliment and its response. This study also employs Wolfson’s Topics of Compliment to analyse the topic of compliments and Herbert’s theory of compliment responses (CR) to analyse the characters’ compliment responses.
The result shows that the characters in Fundamentals of Caring employ do not do the FTA, positive politeness strategy, and bald on record in giving and responding the compliments, while in Wonder the characters employ do not do the FTA, bald on record, positive politeness, and negative politeness strategy. In both movies, the topics of compliment employed by all the characters are topic of personal appearance, topic of general ability and topic of specific-act ability. In responding the compliments, the characters in Fundamentals of Caring apply Appreciation Token; Praise Upgrade; and Comment History, Scale down, Disagreement, and No acknowledgement, Meanwhile, the characters in Wonder apply Appreciation token, Comment Acceptance, Comment History, Return, Scale Down, Question, Disagreement, and No Acknowledgement.
Keywords: Compliment, Compliment Responses, Pragmatics, Fundamentals of Caring Movie, Wonder Movie