Positive politeness strategies in directive speech act used by the character in Turning Red movie

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Irfani, Fauziyah Putri (2023) Positive politeness strategies in directive speech act used by the character in Turning Red movie. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aimed to investigate directive illocutionary speech acts combined with the positive politeness strategy used by the characters in the Turning Red movie. There are two problems to be solved in this study, namely: (1) what types of directive acts are used by the characters in Turning Red movie and (2) how do directive acts applied in positive politeness strategies in Turning Red movie. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. Descriptive study in textual analysis was applied in this study to analyze the conversations of the characters through the script of Turning Red movie. The data were collected by transcribing the script of the Turning Red movie. The transcription was then analyzed by identifying the types of directive act. The analysis was continued by identifying positive politeness strategies which are also used in directive act speech acts. This study reveals that all types of directive acts based on Yule (1996) namely commanding, suggesting, requesting and ordering as well as eight positive politeness strategies (notice, attend to hearer strategy, exxagerate, presuppose/raise/assert common ground, assert or presuppose knowlegde, offer/promise, be optimistic, include speakers and hearers in activity and give reason is implemented in the Turning Red movie. From the occurrence of the four directive types, the characters in Turning Red movie often use commands and suggestions. In addition, the application of positive politeness strategies is also found in directive speech acts. The characters applied eight strategies of positive politeness in their directive utterances namely notice attend to hearer, exxagerate, presuppose/raise/assert common ground, assert or presuppose knowledge, offer/promise, be optimistic, include speakers and hearers in activity and give a reason. In Turning Red movie it is concluded that when someone uses directive speech acts to order someone there is a strategy. The strategy used by the characters to use directive speech acts is the strategy of positive politeness