Positive and negative impoliteness strategies used by characters in escape room movie (2019)

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Harijanto, Delima Cahyaningrum Putri (2023) Positive and negative impoliteness strategies used by characters in escape room movie (2019). Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

The thesis aims to discuss two types of impoliteness strategies - positive and negative impoliteness in the movie entitle Escape Room (2019). This study focuses on the utterances through words, phrases, clauses, and sentences used by all 15 characters in the Escape Room movie (2019). In addition, the researcher also looked into the function of impoliteness contained in the characters' conversations. This study has two issues: (1) What are the types and the functions of positive impoliteness used by characters in the Escape Room movie? (2) What are the types and the functions of negative impoliteness used by characters in the Escape Room movie? The researcher used a descriptive-qualitative approach since the data were evaluated and reported using phrases and sentences. To gather data, the researcher used the transcript and the movie to ensure the validity of the character's utterances in Escape Room. First, the researcher underlined the data, which contains impoliteness strategies. Then the researcher identified the selected data that contained positive and negative impoliteness and their function from the utterances produced by the characters in Escape Room movie (2019), which were then classified based on theories from Culpeper. The study’s result revealed that positive impoliteness is more than negative impoliteness. From all the data searched and analyzed, there were 183 utterances, including positive and negative impoliteness. For positive impoliteness is 132 data and 51 data for negative impoliteness. In addition, each utterance containing positive and negative impoliteness conveyed by the characters has the function of impoliteness. These include affective impoliteness, coercive impoliteness, and entertaining impoliteness.