Politeness Strategies in Requesting by a Native English Teacher in ‘Miracle Worker’ Movie and in Indonesian Teachers’ Point of View
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
People often use speech act quite frequently in the form of request. When requesting, politeness strategies are used depending on who speak, what language, to whom, when, and to what end (Fishman, 1976). This study aimed to find out the types of politeness strategy in requesting by one of main characters as a teacher, Miss Sullivan, in ‘Miracle Worker’ movie which was created based on the real life story. Brown and Levinson’s types of strategy were used (positive and negative politeness). The design of this research was a descriptive qualitative research. The data were gained from the excerpts containing politeness strategies of request utterances taken from the conversation uttered by Miss Sullivan. The result showed that the two politeness strategies were spoken by her with positive politeness 54% and negative politeness 46%. The most used structural form in positive politeness was affirmative, but in negative politeness was imperative. This result was in line with the use of Indonesian teachers’ requesting utterances obtained from open-ended questionnaire. Moreover, the native English utterances analyzed in the movie were considered polite 70% in Indonesian teacher’s point of view. Hence, teacher may use positive politeness strategy to students or other people related to our ways of educating them by requesting with affirmative form considering the context (to whom and in what situation) we speak. Thus, cultural context may take part as politeness value especially showed by teacher who in daily life often interacts by requesting to students and people related.
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Ani Novitasari
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