ABSTRACT

This article explains politeness and analyzes positive politeness strategies based on expressive speech acts. The data in this article are in the form of conversations taken from the movie script entitled "Inside Out". This movie was chosen because this movie's genre is an animated fantasy that is suitable for families to watch. This study uses a pragmatic approach and it is a descriptive qualitative study. The data were analyzed using Brown and Levinson's theory. They stated that politeness is divided into four, there are the bald on record strategy, the positive politeness strategy, the negative politeness strategy, and the last is bald off-record strategy. The positive politeness strategy itself has fifteen strategies, there are: 1) Notice, attend to the hearer (his interest, his wants, needs, goods); 2) Exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with hearer); 3) Intensify interest to hearer; 4) Use in-group markers; 5) Seek agreement; 6) Avoid disagreement; 7) Presuppose/raise/ assert common ground; 8) Joke; 9) Assert or presuppose speaker’s knowledge of and concern for hearer’s wants; 10) Offer, promise; 11) Be optimistic; 12) Include both speaker and hearer in the activity; 13) Give or ask for reasons; 14) Assume or assert reciprocity (scratch my back); 15) Give gifts to hearer (goods, sympathy, understanding, cooperation). The results show that: there are 6 sub classifications of expressive speech acts such as Expressive of Thanking, Expressive of pleasure, Expressive of Apologizing, Expressive of Blaming, Expressive of Praising, and Expressive of Condolence. Moreover, the characters employed 9 positive politeness strategies; strategy 1, strategy 2, strategy 4, strategy 5, strategy 7, strategy 11, strategy 12, strategy 13, strategy 15. Six Strategies that are not found by the researcher are strategy 3, strategy 6, strategy 8, strategy 9, strategy 10, and strategy 14.