An Analysis Of Commisive Utterences And Its Politeness Being Staged In The Lion King Movie

This study is aimed of finding two objectives, namely (1) the intention of commisive utterences used by the characters in The Lion King Movie Manuscript and (2) the politeness strategies used by the characters in The Lion King Movie Manuscript. This study is qualitative research. The data are utterences which contain commisive utterences used by the characters. The data sources are the manuscript and its film. In collecting the data, the researcher used documentation and observation methods. The data are analyzed by using the theory of Austin (1962) and also the theory of Brown and Levinson (1987). The result of the research revealed that there are five intentions of commisive utterences used by the characters in this movie such as agreeing (17%), guaranteeing (17%), offering (8%), promising (54%), and volunteering (4.2%) .The result of this study also revealed that there are three types of politeness strategies employed by the characters such as bald on record (21%), positive (66.7%), and negative (12.5%). Promising and positive politeness strategy become the most dominant of the intention of commisive utterence and politeness strategy used by the characters in this movie