Face threatening acts and politeness strategy in "America's Got Talent 2018"

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Lubabah, Nadhofatul (2019) Face threatening acts and politeness strategy in "America's Got Talent 2018". Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research analyzed Face Threatening Acts and Politeness Strategy used the judges in “America’s Got Talent 2018”. The aimed of this research was found out what are Face Threatening Acts and what are Strategies to minimize the effect of face threatening acts used by the judges in the “America’s got talent 2018”. This research applied descriptive qualitative approach. The source data were taken from the utterances by the judges which consist of words, phrases, and sentences. The researcher used the Face Threatening Acts and Politeness Strategy according to Brown and Levinson to conduct this study. Based on this research, the researcher found some types and sub types of face threatening acts used by the judges. Include positive and negative face as the speaker and hearer. Positive face as the speaker was known with the sub types used by the judges as follows Acceptance of compliment and Control emotion. Secondly, negative face as the speaker as follows the sub types Responses to Fake listener, Expressing thanks, and Acceptance to compliment. Next, the positive face as the hearer was known with the sub types following Disapproval, Criticism, and Complaints. And the last, face as the hearer. The judges used the negative face as hearer was known with Acceptance of compliment, Confession, Emotion leakage, non-control of laughter and tears, Self humiliation, and Excuses. Next, the researcher found four types of politeness strategy to minimize the effect of threaten are used the judges. Those four strategies are positive politeness, negative politeness, bald on record, off record. The judges used the theory above as mean to minimize the face threaten and save the self image of interlocutors. By reading this study, the researcher hopes it will be useful and inspired work to the readers. Especially, who are interesting to analyze the same theory with this research.