AN ANALYSIS OF NEGATIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES AS FOUND IN TITANIC MOVIE

Abstract

The aim in this research is to describe about negative politeness strategies based on theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). Politeness strategies are used to formulate messages to save the hearers face when face threatening acts are inevitable or desire. This research discuss about what are the strategies used by the actors to express negative politeness in Titanic movie and what are the markers used to reflect the negative politeness strategies in Titanic movie. Data were taken from Titanic movie. From the data, the writer find six strategies of negative politeness .They are (1) be conventionally indirect, (2) question hedge, (3) give deference, (4) apologize, (5) minimize imposition, and (6) general rule. The writer also find the markers used to reflect the negative politeness strategies in Titanic movie. There are will you, please, can, sorry. The writer used descriptive qualitative method. All of the findings will be discussed in this thesis.
Keywords: politeness strategies, context, negative politeness strategies