An Analysis Politeness Strategies In The Directive Uttered By Characters In Big Hero 6 Movie

This research studies about directive speech acts in Big Hero 6 movie. The objectives of this research are to know the kinds of directive speech acts and the kinds of politeness strategies. The researcher takes the data from the movie entitled Big Hero 6. This research is a qualitative research by employing descriptive method. The result tends to focus on the deep meaning of the dialogue‟s quality rather than the quantity of number. The data of this research are taken from directive speech acts in dialogues in the movie. The instrument of this research is the reseacher himself who collects, analyzes, and presents the data findings of the researchthen draw the conclusion. The researcher applied the trustworthiness of the data to obtain the valid data. The result of the analysis shows four kinds of directive speech acts uttered in Big Hero 6 movie. There are 37 data (41.11%) belongs to ordering, 19 data (21.11%) belongs to request, 25 data (27.78%) belongs to asking, and 9 data (10%) belongs to suggesting. The kinds of politeness strategies in Big Hero 6 movie are five. There are 26 data (28.89%) belong to the positive politeness strategy, 49 data (51.11%) belongs to bald on record strategy, 13 data (14.44%) belong to off record, 4 data (4.44%) belong to negative politeness, and 1 data (1.12%) belong to Don‟t do FTA.