LULUATUL MUSYAFA’AH, 0203519004 (2023) POLITENESS STRATEGIES OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE MOVIE. Under Graduates thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

In conversations, people tend to speak politely to keep their interlocutors’ feelings so the conversation can be maintained in harmony. They follow several rules and principles that already exist in society. They apply politeness strategies so that the communication can run effectively. Politeness strategy can be found either in daily conversation or in the movie. Having polite conversation could not be separated by the culture in which the language is spoken. Pride and Prejudice movie is chosen as the object of this study because the lives of the main characters are affected by these legal and cultural norms. Besides that, this movie is a good source since the utterances of the main characters are various that can be an object to be analyzed in this research. This study aims to discover the politeness strategies performed by the main characters of Pride and Prejudice movie and to explain the pattern of different types of strategies used in the movie. This research is qualitative descriptive research. There are two data collections that had been analyzed in this research. The data collection are the video of the movie and the movie’s transcript. The types in analyzing the data are identifying, classifying, and interpreting. The subject of the study is the main characters of Pride and Prejudice movie, and the object of the study is the utterances of the main characters. Based on the analysis, the politeness strategies were used by the main characters of Pride and Prejudice movie. The types of politeness strategies employed are bald-on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off-record strategy. The most frequent strategy was positive politeness which occurred 98 times from 149 data. The patterns of politeness strategies applied are in declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. All

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