Politeness Strategies Performed by Main Actors in “Camp Rock” Movie in Producing Directive speech acts

Umika Durin, Maknun, (2011) Politeness Strategies Performed by Main Actors in “Camp Rock” Movie in Producing Directive speech acts. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Key Words: Imperative, Politeness Strategies Language is a tool of communication which need a lot of aspects to be used appropriately. One of the most important aspect is politeness. Politeness is the way how to be nice toward other people. The theory about it is studied in Pragmatics. The most influential politeness theory in Pragmatics is the Politeness Strategies by Brown and Levinson. This research focuses on the Politeness Strategies used by the main actors of a movie in producing directive speech acts. Dialogues of an actor in a movie is a good data for Pragmatics study since they represent thought, feeling, and desire of the characters of the movie. Moreover, the dialogues of the movie are also completed with the factual context which shows the situation and condition of the dialogues. The aim of this research is to know Politeness Strategies used by the main actors of “Camp Rock” movie in producing directive speech acts. Based on the background above, the research problems were formulated as follows:(1) What are the directive speech acts produced by main actors in “Camp Rock” movie?; (2) What are the politeness strategies performed by the main actors in “Camp Rock” movie in producing directive speech acts? The purposes of the study were: (1) To find out the directive speech acts produced by main actors in “Camp Rock” movie; (2) To find out the politeness strategies performed by the main actors in “Camp Rock” movie in producing directive speech actss. Politeness Strategies is the most influential politeness theory in Pragmatics by Brown and Levinson. Brown and Levinson explained politeness as strategies to save or maintain other’s ‘face’ in order to avoid face-threatening acts (FTA). There are three factors to measure the degree of the politeness of the utterance: 1) power rating (P); 2) social distance (D); and 3) rating of imposition (R). Those factors lead the use of the strategies to avoid face-threatening acts (FTA). The strategies are: 1) bald on record; 2) positive politeness; 3) negative politeness; and 4) off record. Speech Acts are words with which to do things, which introduced by John developed by John R. Searle. According to Searle, speech acts are classified into: (1) Representatives (assertive), (2) Directives, (3) Comissives, (4) Expressive and (5) Declarations. This research used content analysis design with qualitative approach so the researcher was the key instrument of the sudy in collecting and analyzing the data. The data of the research were taken from the script of the “Camp Rock” movie. To collect the data, the researcher took the following stages: (1) Watching and understanding the story of the movie; (2) Writing the script in a note; (3) Marking the directive speech acts in the script. After the data had been collected, the writer analyzed the data in the following steps: (1) Data reduction, it refers to the step of coding the directive speech acts produced by the main actors and analyzing them based on the Politeness Strategies; (2) Data display, it is the step of constructing the result of data reduction into a certain form; (3) Making conclusion. The findings of the research were (1) The directive speech acts produced by the main actors in “Camp Rock” movie performed through several categories, those are command and request(2) The directive speech acts produced by the main actors in “Camp Rock” movie contains all strategies of the Politeness Strategies, those are bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness and off record (3) In indirect speech acts, the main actors of “Camp Rock” movie performed negative politeness and off record strategy in producing the directive speech acts. Finally, the writer suggest the readers, students and researcher who are interested in Pragmatics, especially in politeness theories, to study more related references and to conduct a research about politeness from other point of view and different subject so the study about politeness will be developed.

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