Negative politeness strategy used by Louis Bloom in nightcrwler movie

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Fadilah, Ahmad Sohibul (2018) Negative politeness strategy used by Louis Bloom in nightcrwler movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Politeness is language use’s feature which most obviously expresses the nature of human sociality as expressed in speech. Politeness is how we treat others in interaction, how others should be treated. Including, How we behave well based on suitable concern according to interactors’ social status and their social relationship. Here, politeness associates with interactor’s public persona or ‘face’ which is in language use. This present research is conducted to focus only on negative politeness strategy used by Louis Bloom based on Brown and Levinson’s negative politeness strategy. Politeness strategy is a strategy which is used to avoid violation of the hearer’s face. Feelings are divided into two quiet different kinds which are to be attended, and as results there are two distinct kinds of politeness. Negative politeness and positive politeness. Negative politeness is about unwelcome, promoting expressions of respect, restraint, avoidance. Positive politeness is about the fact that long-term relationships with people can be important and effective to pay attention on their feelings (Penelope Brown, 2015). This study is using negative politeness strategy of Brown and Levinson. The result is as follow. There are 41 data which contain be conventionally indirect strategy, 2 question and hedge strategy, 1 be pessimistic strategy, 0 minimize the imposition strategy, 4 give deference strategy, 1 apologize strategy, 4 impersonalize s and h strategy, 9 state the FTA as a general rule strategy, 5 Nominalize strategy, 2 Go on record as not as incurring a debt, or as not indebting H. The total of the data are 69 data which contain various negative politeness strategies. The reason Louis Bloom uses be conventionally indirect to show his respect to the hearer. The reason Louis Bloom uses question and hedge strategy in order not to force his view about something to the hearer. The reason Louis Bloom uses be pessimistic strategy to show his doubt about something. The reason Louis Bloom uses give deference strategy to satisfies an hearer to be treated as superior. The reason Louis Bloom uses to show his reluctance to utters his utterance. The reason Louis Bloom uses Impersonalize S and H in order not to impinge the hearer. The reason Louis Bloom uses state the FTA as a general rule because he would like to show that what he did is based on general rule. The reason Louis Bloom uses nominalize to distance the actor and insert formality to respect the hearer. The reason Louis Bloom uses go on record as not as incurring a debt, or as not indebting H to respect the hearer in term of refusing or accepting something.