Tagugurad, Monika
(2022)
Politeness Strategies in Directive Speech Act in The
Greatest Showman (2017) Movie.
Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.
Abstract
Language as a means of communication always develops overtime. The
value of politeness implied in the language. Furthermore, in interpreting the
politeness value of a language, situational context has strong function to be
considered. This cannot be separated from the speakers’ ways to express language
with the politeness standard so that impact the listener's tendency to interpret the
politeness value without seeing the situation affects it. The research purpose is to
find out the types of politeness strategies and situational context that affects it in
directive speech act in the Greatest Showman movie script. The researcher use
qualitative method. The result was the five politeness strategies namely bald on
record 42 data (29 %), positive politeness 61 (42 %), negative politeness 34 data
(23 %), and bald off record 8 (6 %) where in each of these politeness strategies the
component of speech appears as a situational context that influences. Additionally,
the result show that the movie illustrates The Greatest showman contains more
positive politeness strategy which relates to the movie background that occurred in
19th century society, it is still valuable to uphold family values and respect for
others according to their social class.
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