Politeness Strategy and Principles Used in Conversation on Green Book Film

Abstract

The aims of this study is to examine the Politeness Principles and
Politeness Strategy in the context of the film Green Book. This is a
qualitative study, and the data are analyzed descriptively. The data
was collected and shown in a table, which included turn-taking,
speech, and speakers. This study's findings revealed four key points.
To begin, Brown and Levinson's theory suggested three politeness
concepts and four politeness strategies: positive face, negative face,
and face threatening-acts as politeness principles, and positive
politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, bald on-record, offrecord. Second, the politeness strategy On-record, off-record,
pessimistic face, good face, they were both bald. Finally, the most
common forms of politeness values were negative face (45.5%) and
negative politeness technique (36.4%). Finally, the most strong of
negative politeness accounted for 36.4% of all politeness strategies,
followed by optimistic politeness and off-record politeness strategies,
both accounting for 27.3%, and bald on-record politeness accounting
for 18.2%