An Analysis of Politeness Strateies in Requesting Used in Real Human and Non Human Conversation on “Avatar” Movie

This research analyzes the use of politeness strategies in requests made by characters in films. The research specifically focuses on analyzing the politeness strategies in requests used by each character in the film. The researcher selected a film with different characters, namely human and non-human or what is referred to as avatars. This study aims to analyze the dominant use of politeness strategies in requests in a fictional genre film. It also aims to examine the forms of politeness strategies in conversations since films are representations of everyday life. Furthermore, films are one of the most widely used communication media today.From the analysis results, the researcher found that the use of politeness strategies in requests is most commonly found among characters between humans and humans, which is 54.88% of the total data. In addition, negative politeness is a strategy of politeness that is widely used by characters, accounting for 32.93%. The researchers concluded that politeness strategies in requests are commonly found in conversations between human characters and that negative politeness is a strategy frequently employed by characters to express politeness strategies in requests. The results of the study in the fictional genre film show that the use of politeness strategies in requests is predominantly utilized by human characters. Furthermore, the strategy that dominates politeness strategies in requests is the negative politeness strategy. Therefore, the characters in the film 'Avatar' tend to use negative politeness strategies when asking for something or making requests. Human characters dominate the application of politeness strategies in requests.