Positive politeness strategies of expressive acts used by the characters in Dolittle movie (2020)

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Iza, Anisa Nurul (2022) Positive politeness strategies of expressive acts used by the characters in Dolittle movie (2020). Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze positive politeness strategies in expressive speech acts in the Dolittle movie (2020). The researcher uses the theory of expressive speech acts by Searle (1969) and the theory of positive politeness strategies by Brown and Levinson (1987) to analyze the data. The researcher formulate two questions study. First, what types of expressive speech acts used by the characters in Dolittle (2020)? Second, what types of positive politeness strategies in expressive speech acts are used by the characters in Dolittle (2020)? This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach because the researcher focus more on words than numbers. The data sources are transcript and movie to ensure the validity of the character's utterances in the Dolittle movie (2020). Then the researcher identified data from the utterances produced by all the characters in Dolittle's movie to determine the types of expressive speech acts and the types of positive politeness strategies in expressive speech acts to answer research problems. The data in this study are in the form of words, sentences, and phrases spoken by all the characters in the Dolittle movie (2020). The research instrument in this study was the researcher herself. This study shows that the characters in the Dolittle movie used 12 types of expressive speech acts proposed by Searle (1969) and 13 types of positive politeness strategies for expressive speech acts proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). Researchers found 125 data on expressive speech acts and 108 data on positive politeness strategies in the Dolittle movie (2020). Furthermore, the most common expressive speech act used by the characters in this movie is praising with 24 data. Meanwhile, the most widely used type of positive politeness strategy is Using group identity with 33 data. In addition, the least used expressive speech act by the characters in the Dolittle movie (2020) is boasting with only 2 datum, and the least used types of positive politeness strategies in this movie are presupposing/raising/asserting common ground and offering or promising with only 1 datum.