An Analysis of Politeness Strategies Applied by The Main Characters in The Deadpool & Wolverine Movie
Keywords:
Politeness Strategies, Deadpool & Wolverine Movie, Main CharactersAbstract
This study aims to find out the kinds of politeness strategies are applied by the main characters and the possible factors affecting the main characters use certain politeness strategies in Deadpool & Wolverine movie. The subject of this study are Deadpool and Wolverine as the main characters in the movie. The researcher uses qualitative method and Atlas.ti to analyze the data. The data were collected by watching the movie and reading the script of the movie to identifying the utterances that contains polit eness strategies and classifying the utterances based on the four types of politeness strategies. The result showed there are 605 total utterances that containing politeness strategies and two main characters namely Deadpool and Wolverine, applied four types of politeness strategies, which were distributed as follows: bald on-record as the most frequently used strategy with a frequency of 237 utterances (39%), followed by off -record, 157 utterances (26%), positive politeness, 125 utterances (20%), and negative politeness, 86 utterances (14%). The strategies that were used by the two main characters were affected by three main factors, namely social distance, relative power, and rank of imposition. The result also showed that Deadpool primarily relied on off-record and relative power is the factor influence the choice of the politeness strategies. While Wolverine frequently utilized bald on-record and the factor that influence him to used certain politeness strategies is social distance.
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