Impoliteness Strategies Performed by Gordon Ramsay in Kitchen Nightmares Season 2 Episode 6

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Pramono, Angga Cahya (2021) Impoliteness Strategies Performed by Gordon Ramsay in Kitchen Nightmares Season 2 Episode 6. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis aimed at analyzing the impoliteness strategies in ‘The Kitchen Nightmares’ TV-show. The researcher analyzed Gordon Ramsay’s impoliteness strategies and their responses which were used by the other participants. Furthermore, the analysis also focused on another aspect, gender. The researcher also investigated and compared the relationship between gender and impoliteness in the data. The present study attempted to find gender differences in the use of impoliteness strategies. The data of this study was the video of The Kitchen Nightmares season 2 episode 6. Culpeper’s (2003) theory about impoliteness was applied to analyze the data. The researcher in this study applied a –descriptive qualitative approach. In the matter of collecting the data, the researcher transcribed the video into transcription text. Then, underlining and coding sentences, words, and phrases that contain impoliteness and their responses become the next step. The last step was comparing impoliteness strategies used by male and female participants and their responses then concluded. The researcher found that all types of impoliteness strategies (bald on record, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm or mock impoliteness, and withhold politeness) were done by Gordon Ramsay to female participants and four types of impoliteness strategies (bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, and sarcasm or mock impoliteness) performed on male participants in the data. Then, the researcher found that all types of responses (accepting face attack, offensive countering, defensive countering, and no response) used by male participants to Gordon Ramsay’s impoliteness. While the female participants only used three types of responses (accepting face attack, defensive countering, and no response). The researcher also found that the use of impoliteness strategies on male and female participants did not show a clear difference. Meanwhile, the researcher found that gender differences influenced the use of responses given between male and female participants.