LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
Vol 19, No 1 (2016): April 2016

Politeness Strategies Applied by the Characters of The Great Debaters Movie

Miwita Rosari (Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Jan 2017

Abstract

This research explores politeness strategies used by the characters in The Great Debaters movie. The data used in this research were collected from 166 pages of The Great Debaters movie transcription. The analysis is based on Brown and Levinsons politeness strategies and Spolskys factors affecting someones politeness in speaking. The research results showed that the characters in The Great Debaters movie applied the types of politeness strategies, namely off-record, baldon-record, positive politeness, and negative politeness. Moreover, the characters alsorevealed the factors affecting the characters politeness in speaking, namelylanguage style, register and domain, and slang and solidarity. However, the characters did not show language and gender factor in their conversation since they were mostly engaged in the same topic, namely a debate competition.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LLT

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Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, to be published twice a year, namely in April and October, is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published by the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. The ...