Abstract
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 The aims of this study is to figure out the used of politeness strategy uttered by the character in The Patriot movie and the influence of gender to the level of politeness within the movie. Documentation method and note-taking technique were applied in collecting the data of this study. The data were obtained from the movie The Patriot, furthermore, the data were classified based on their types of politeness and also based on the speaker’s gender and analysed qualitatively using the theory of Politeness proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978) and the theory of sociolinguistics proposed by Ronald Wardhaugh (2010). The analysis revealed that the character in the movie The Patriot applied eleven out of fifteen strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson. Regarding to the gender of the character, women consistently tend to use neutral style when they have conversations both with women or men. On the other hand, men are using various levels of formality when they have conversation.
Highlights
Many people think that politeness is as simple as bowing in front of people in order to show a respect, to greet someone else, or even only saying excuse me, sorry, please, or thank you
The data were obtained from the movie The Patriot, the data were classified based on their types of politeness and based on the speaker‘s gender and analysed qualitatively using the theory of Politeness proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978) and the theory of sociolinguistics proposed by Ronald Wardhaugh (2010)
This study focuses on finding the positive politeness strategy used by the character in The Patriot movie
Summary
Many people think that politeness is as simple as bowing in front of people in order to show a respect, to greet someone else, or even only saying excuse me, sorry, please, or thank you. The purpose of politeness itself is to make all of the parties relaxed and comfortable with one another. Besides it take an important role in a peace mission, politeness can avoid a conflict. Apologizing, which is a classic form of politeness, is an obvious conflict avoider as would be such expressions as you are right, please forgive me, and I was wrong, it can help create a more positive atmosphere which is likely to help minimize the feelings of conflict and opposition
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